More mumbo-jumbo alternate-fact challenged nonsense from a never-thinker.
Damned those pesky words from the President and facts.
"If we don't get what we want one way or the other ... I will shut down the government," Trump said during a highly unusual fight that played out in front of the press before the official meeting began. "I am proud to shut down the government for border security. ... I will take the mantle of shutting it down."
Trump owns the shutdown . And he’s OK with that.
The president spent the weekend digging in on his position, and aides say he accepts a closure that could drag into the new year.
By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO 12/23/2018 03:37 PM EST
President Donald Trump is now the “proud” owner of a government shutdown — his third. And he doesn’t seem to mind.
The threat of an extended shutdown is far less of a concern to the president than not making good on his central campaign pledge to build a border wall and looking like a fraud, according to White House aides and Trump allies. Trump spent the weekend digging in on his position behind closed doors, meeting with hard-line conservatives and signaling through his top aides that he could stomach a closure that could drag on well into the new year.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, set the bar on Sunday.
“I don’t think things are going to move very quickly here for the next couple of days,” he told Chris Wallace in an interview on Fox News.
The holiday shutdown comes amid a series of tumultuous Cabinet shakeups — Trump announced on Sunday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would depart earlier than expected — a stock market rout and turbulence from the Republican congressional ranks over the president’s decision to pull troops from Syria and scale back the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Capitol is seen as the federal government is in a partial shutdown.
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/23/gov...se-1074565
Damned those pesky words from the President and facts.
"If we don't get what we want one way or the other ... I will shut down the government," Trump said during a highly unusual fight that played out in front of the press before the official meeting began. "I am proud to shut down the government for border security. ... I will take the mantle of shutting it down."
Trump owns the shutdown . And he’s OK with that.
The president spent the weekend digging in on his position, and aides say he accepts a closure that could drag into the new year.
By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO 12/23/2018 03:37 PM EST
President Donald Trump is now the “proud” owner of a government shutdown — his third. And he doesn’t seem to mind.
The threat of an extended shutdown is far less of a concern to the president than not making good on his central campaign pledge to build a border wall and looking like a fraud, according to White House aides and Trump allies. Trump spent the weekend digging in on his position behind closed doors, meeting with hard-line conservatives and signaling through his top aides that he could stomach a closure that could drag on well into the new year.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, set the bar on Sunday.
“I don’t think things are going to move very quickly here for the next couple of days,” he told Chris Wallace in an interview on Fox News.
The holiday shutdown comes amid a series of tumultuous Cabinet shakeups — Trump announced on Sunday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would depart earlier than expected — a stock market rout and turbulence from the Republican congressional ranks over the president’s decision to pull troops from Syria and scale back the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Capitol is seen as the federal government is in a partial shutdown.
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/23/gov...se-1074565
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