The year 2018 is proving to be relentless all the way to the finish line. After a tumultuous 12 months, the second year of Trump’s presidency is going out the way it came in (almost) — with a government shutdown. Despite frantic attempts at passing…
The year 2018 is proving to be relentless all the way to the finish line. After a tumultuous 12 months, the second year of Trump’s presidency is going out the way it came in (almost) — with a government shutdown. Despite frantic attempts at passing a budget bill that would keep the government open past a Friday, Dec. 21 deadline, at midnight the clock ran out and the government officially went into a partial shutdown. But while politicians and government officials may be bemoaning this turn of events, there’s one person who’s got a different take. President Donald Trump’s tweet about the 2018 government shutdown was a video about wall funding and seemingly blaming the Democrats for the shutdown. Elite Daily reached out to the White House for further clarification of the President’s video tweet, but did not hear back at the time of publication.
The sticking point of the budget negotiations that ran out on Friday night was reasonably singular: Trump wanted $5 billion to build a wall on the Mexico-U. S. border, which Congress was unwilling to approve. The wall, which is proposed as a way to stymie illegal border crossings but comes with a cartload of logistical and administrative problems, has been a regular talking point of Trump’s. However, despite the president’s enthusiasm for the project, Congress has been more skeptical, with Democrats offering the still-substantial sum of $1.3 billion.
