Updated at 10:15 p.m. ET
The White House is planning a media blitz as President Trump pushes for a wall along the Southern border, which congressional Democrats have repeatedly rebuffed. This week’s events involving the president come as a partial shutdown of the federal government drags into its third week with no apparent end in sight to the impasse.
Trump tweeted he will “Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border” on Tuesday night. It will be his first Oval Office address as president. The president is asking the television networks for 7-8 minutes of airtime, White House deputy chief of staff Bill Shine told NPR.
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