Sen. Mark Warner said he isn’t going to give in on President Donald Trump's demand for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Congress Mark Warner: Trump ‘doesn’t tell the truth’

Now stretching over three weeks long, the government shutdown is the longest in history — and much of it is hinging on President Donald Trump’s dream of a border wall.

But Sen. Mark Warner said he isn’t going to give in on the wall, despite representing nearly 34,000 federal workers in Virginia who are going without pay because of the shutdown.


“I’m for additional border security, but that border security ought to be driven by the experts, not by the political whims of a campaign promise where Trump said the wall was going to be built and paid for by Mexico,” the Virginia Democrat told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. “This guy doesn’t tell the truth.”

“So more border security, let’s have at it,” Warner added. “While we’re having that debate, let’s reopen the government.”