Trump Pledges to List Programs to Be Cut Amid Shutdown on Friday
Visitors at a closed gate outside the closed Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington on Oct. 12.
Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/BloombergPresident Donald Trump pledged to release a list of federal programs slated for cuts later this week, the White House’s latest threat to slash the federal bureaucracy and put pressure on Democrats to end the impasse over the shutdown.
“So we’re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we wanted to close up or that we never wanted to happen,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “The Democrats are getting killed, and we’re going to have a list of them on Friday.”