Congress eyes long shutdown

Mr. Trump warned on Twitter of “a long stay.”

And Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Mr. Trump must give up his dream of more border wall before Democrats will accede.

“If you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple,” the New York Democrat said on the Senate floor Saturday.

Democrats are convinced the president, who for months has threatened to orchestrate a government shutdown, will be blamed by voters.

Mr. Trump, for his part, said there was a lot of “fake news” about the shutdown, but didn’t say what in particular he objected to about the coverage.