Trump Says ‘A Lot of Good’ Could Come From Government Shutdown

President Donald Trump said “a lot of good” could stem from a government shutdown, threatening to oust federal workers and eliminate programs that are favored by Democrats if Congress doesn’t meet a midnight funding deadline.

“We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want and they’d be Democrat things,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday. “They just don’t learn. So we have no choice. I have to do that for the country.”