President Donald Trump will deliver a statement on the shutdown and the border on Friday afternoon, CNN and other news outlets reported. It's not clear what the announcement will be, though the president has publicly said he's considering announcing an emergency order to build a border wall on the southern border. Two competing Senate bills to re-open the government failed on Thursday. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, from the Senate floor, said there were talks on ending the shutdown as recently as Friday morning.