„We certainly don’t want to see a shutdown.“
Perhaps not, but more importantly, neither does Donald Trump assert he’ll oppose the deal reached by congressional negotiators last night. In a press avail at the start of a Cabinet meeting, Trump expressed his unhappiness with the budget deal, telling reporters, “I can’t say I’m thrilled.” However, Trump also emphasized that “we can’t have another shutdown,” and asserted that he would start “supplementing” the bill’s funding on his own.
“I don’t think you’re going to see a shutdown,” Trump added. “If you have one, it’s the Democrats’ fault”:
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U. S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure. GOP congressional leaders swung behind the proposed deal, selling it as a necessary compromise.
Trump said he doesn’t believe there will be a shutdown, which could have hit hundreds of thousands of federal workers again this weekend. “Everything” is on the table, he said at the White House, but “we certainly don’t want to see a shutdown.
