With Shutdown Looming, Trump Is Tweeting Out Demands. Will He Stick By Them?
The clock is ticking to a government shutdown, and President Trump keeps adding to the list of what he wants — 140 characters at a time.
"I also protect myself by being flexible. I never get too attached to one deal or one approach."
Those words from Donald Trump's The Art of The Deal may be giving congressional Republicans some hope this week.
That's because Congress is facing a midnight Friday deadline to pass legislation to keep the federal government fully open — or face a partial government shutdown precisely on President Trump's 100th day in office.
Government shutdowns are not unheard of, but those in recent memory came when power was divided, not when one party controled both chambers of Congress and the White House. Republicans are aware that their party
