President Donald Trump is among those who will speak at the memorial serve for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona.
President Donald Trump is among those who will speak at the memorial serve for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is painting the looming government shutdown as a “Trump shutdown” if the president does not meet with Democrats.
“We’re ready to meet with him any time and place to negotiate and avoid the Trump shutdown. Right now, it’s a Trump shutdown because he won’t even talk to us,” Schumer said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “He won’t even consider what the American people want is lowering costs. They don’t like his tariffs, they don’t like the health care stuff. And when you don’t, when you sit down and say it’s my way or the highway, you’re creating a shutdown.
Pressed multiple times if he would vote no on a short-term measure to fund the government into November, Schumer did not directly say if he would.
Also appearing on CNN, Democratic Sen. John Fetterman said he agrees with his party in trying to restore Medicaid funds and extend Obamacare subsidies, his disagrees that forcing a shutdown is the way to achieve that.
“I condemned it when the Republicans threatened to do that thing, and it’s entirely wrong for us to do the same thing now,” Fetterman said.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul said he won’t vote for either party’s plan because they don’t address the deficit.
“The Republican plan would add $2 trillion to the deficit. The Democrat plan was going to add $3 trillion to the deficit, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We have a $37 trillion debt, a trillion dollars in interest, and it’s because both parties are terrible. So, I’m not going to vote the Republican plan or the Democrat plan. I think eventually they come together.”
-ABC News’ Hannah Demissie
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