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 President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would move to fortify U.S. borders “even more” in the wake of an attack in France that left three dead and more than a dozen wounded, criticizing Democratic congressional leaders for pushing back on his requests for money to build a proposed border wall with Mexico. 
 
 “Another very bad terror attack in France. We are going to strengthen our borders even more,” he wrote in a tweet, without elaborating on his plans. “Chuck and Nancy must give us the votes to get additional Border Security!” 
 
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 A gunman opened fire Tuesday at an outdoor Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, near the border with Germany. Although he has not been apprehended, the Strasbourg-born gunman was known to authorities before the shooting, which French officials have said is “probably” terrorism-related. 
 
 Trump met Tuesday with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi over his $5 billion request for funding to build the border wall, a sit-down that quickly deteriorated into a partisan brawl on live television, culminating with Trump’s declaration that he would be “proud” to force a partial government shutdown if his demands were not met. 
 
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 While lawmakers in the Senate have agreed to a bipartisan deal that would provide $1.6 billion for border security, none of those taxpayer dollars would be allowed to fund a wall, but only fencing and other resources. Trump has upped his request to $5 billion for his long-promised wall and is not backing down, boasting Tuesday that “I don’t mind owning that issue.” 
 
 Though the legislative and executive branches of the government are under Republican control, any spending bill will need 60 votes in the Senate, meaning some Democratic support is required. 
 
 Schumer and Pelosi said Tuesday they had pitched the president either a yearlong stopgap for the Department of Homeland Security, freezing its funding at current levels, or a yearlong continuing resolution for the remaining spending bills Congress has yet to consider. Either option would deny Trump a proposed $300 million boost for border security but would keep the government open as negotiations continued. 
 
 Trump also sought to tie his demands for border security to the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal, a pact his administration withdrew from earlier this year, falsely claiming in another tweet that “the Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars and got nothing, but they can’t give 5 Billion Dollars for National Security and a Wall?” 
 
 The president appears to refer to dubious claims by opponents of the deal that lifting sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbing its nuclear weapons programs freed up $150 billion in frozen assets for the country, a far cry from the $56 billion estimated by then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and the $25 billion to $50 billion estimated by some experts. That money is in a separate category because it never belonged to U.S. taxpayers, unlike border wall funding appropriated by Congress. ||||| Tweet with a location 
 
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– President Trump's Oval Office argument with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi was the talk of the town on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the president picked up where he left off. Trump took to Twitter to continue his push for border-wall funding, this time trying to bolster his argument by citing a mass shooting Tuesday at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France. Politico notes the attack was located near the France-Germany border. Trump tweeted, "Another very bad terror attack in France. We are going to strengthen our borders even more. Chuck and Nancy must give us the votes to get additional Border Security!" Then, in a second tweet, "The Democrats and President Obama gave Iran 150 Billion Dollars and got nothing, but they can’t give 5 Billion Dollars for National Security and a Wall?" Senators are currently willing to approve $1.6 billion in funding for border security, though that money couldn't be put toward wall construction. As for Trump's $150 billion figure, it's a reference to the amount of frozen assets Iran got access to when sanctions were lifted as part of the nuclear deal; Politico reports then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew calculated a lower impact of $56 billion. (The suspect in the Strasbourg attack may have already fled France.)