Trump Shrugs Off Impending Shutdown as Parties Deadlocked
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks to members of the media at the US Capitol in Washington.
Photographer: Graeme Sloan/BloombergPresident Donald Trump on Friday shrugged off the threat of the first US government shutdown in nearly seven years and moved to cast the blame for any disruption on Democrats.
“These people are crazy, the Democrats, so if it has to shut down, it’ll have to shut down,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House. “But they’re the ones that are shutting down.”