What would you be saying about now of the Supreme Court appt made by Her Highhatedness Clinton? About serious attacks on the Second Amendment? All the other evil things that she would be doing? Trump simply is far better for us even if it takes months to make advancements. I'll wait.
Trump: Our country ‘needs’ government shutdown to pass GOP agenda Michael Walsh 17 hours ago
President Trump talks with reporters as he walks to the Oval Office on May 2. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump called for a government shutdown later this year to further the goals of the Republican Party.
On Tuesday morning, Trump said a shutdown is necessary for Republicans to negotiate with Democrats on a spending bill next September after the current spending bill runs its course.
He argued that the government closure would help to clean up the “mess” in Washington, D.C., either by prompting Senate Republicans to scrap the legislative filibuster’s 60-vote threshold — something many GOP lawmakers oppose — or by boosting the Republicans in the 2018 congressional elections.
Trump’s comments came in the aftermath of a congressional deal on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through September.
And Democrats secured a number of wins at Trump’s expense. The bipartisan, $1 trillion spending bill stipulates that none of the money can go toward constructing Trump’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. The legislators also rejected most of Trump’s proposed cuts to the nation’s nonmilitary spending.
Amid criticism from some conservatives over the deal, Trump argued that Republicans gave the concessions to Democrats because they didn’t have enough senatorial votes to go it alone. An alternative to scrapping the filibuster, Trump suggested, was for voters to elect more Republicans to the Senate in the 2018 midterms.
Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration at Congress for not quickly embracing his legislative agenda. In a recent interview, Trump denounced the rules of Congress as “unbelievably archaic and slow-moving,” and he called Democrats “totally obstructionist” at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Nevertheless, he said, Republicans would win the “great battles” ahead.
Republicans recently moved to scrap the filibuster and its 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court confirmations, after Democrats previously did the same for lower-court judges. However, a bipartisan supermajority of 61 senators said in March that they opposed eliminating the filibuster for legislation.
Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed last month that he would never abolish that 60-vote threshold that’s needed to end filibusters.
On a conference call with reporters, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney called Trump’s push for a shutdown “defensible” but said he was focused on the current proposal.
“Right now, I’m not worried about September. I’m worried about this deal that’s in front of us,” Mulvaney said. “But I think the president’s tweet was that we might need a shutdown at some point to drive home that this place — that Washington needs to be fixed. I think that’s a defensible position, one we’ll deal with in September...”
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