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Mick Mulvaney, the White
House budget director, said
that he believed “there is
a deal in the next 24 hours
because of the nature of the
back and forth between the
House and the Senate” an agreement. But a political
defeat here can be extremely
expensive to either of the
parties for the upcoming mid
term elections can let control
of the Congress be put out in
open for grabs.
Retaliating to trump, Shumer
stated, “It’s almost as if you
were rooting for a shutdown
and now we’ll have one
and the blame should crash
entirely on President Trump’s
shoulders,” He further stated,
“We can’t keep kicking the
can down the road,” said Mr.
Schumer. “We’ll be right back
here in a month with the same
problems at our feet.” Mitch McConnell, the
Republican Senate majority
leader, said the Democrats
were holding “the entire
country hostage. . . because
extreme elements of their
base want illegal immigration
to crowd out every other
priority”.
Both Democrats and
Republicans agreed to reopen
negotiations on Saturday
and they committed to reach
The shutdown would be seen
on Morning when the federal
workers would be forced to
stay home without pay, and
around 800,000 workers are
believed to be affected by it.
During shutdown; airport
security checks, food
inspections, federal law
enforcement, and other vital
services would continue,
along with Social Security
and other federal benefit
programs and military
operations.
The last government
shutdown was in 2013,
and lasted for 16 days. and
Trump at that time blamed
Obama and stated, “The
problem start from the top
and have to get solved from
the top. The president is the
leader, and he’s got to get
everybody in a room and
he’s got to lead.”
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