President Trump Wants a Government Shutdown
Upset with a budget deal that shortchanges his priorities, he chooses pugnacity over deal making.
by David A. Graham
May 02, 2017
2 minutes
Chalk up one more first for the Donald Trump administration: a president saying the country needs a government shutdown. In a pair of tweets Tuesday morning, Trump raged against a recent deal to fund the government through September and said that the government needed a good shutdown when this deal runs out:
The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017
either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good "shutdown" in September
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
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