Trump Threatens Shutdown This Fall After Democrats Win Deal
- President writes on Twitter that closure needed to ‘fix mess’
- By noon, Trump celebrates deal as ‘under the radar’ victory
Concessions Made to Avoid Government Shutdown
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President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to force a government shutdown later this year after congressional Democrats and Republicans struck a budget deal that largely neglected his priorities.
“The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there!” the president wrote on Twitter in the morning. “We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”