US government shutdown: Donald Trump promises firings and cuts to ‘Democrats’ favorite projects’ if shutdown continues – as it happened
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Karoline Leavitt also spoke on Fox News this morning, where she was asked whether Donald Trump's threats of cuts were just a negotiating tactic. Oh, it's very real," she replied.
The Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position," she went on. And if they don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple. Pass the clean continuing resolution and all of this goes away.
Look, it's likely going to be in the thousands. And that's something that the Office of Management and Budget and the entire team at the White House here, again, is unfortunately having to work on today.
These discussions and these conversations, these meetings would not be happening if the Democrats had voted to keep the government open.
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