President Trump on Tuesday called for a government shutdown at the end of September in order to kill the legislative filibuster in the Senate so he can pass more of his priorities. “The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there!” Trump tweeted. “We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”
Trump agreed to a deal between congressional Democrats and Republicans over the weekend to avoid a partial government shutdown that would start early Saturday morning with no spending bill. The agreement, which doesn’t fund many of Trump’s priorities, would keep the government open until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
Trump said in a recent interview that he’d like to do away with some of the rules that make it harder to pass legislation in the Senate, namely the 60-vote threshold to end debate on a bill. Senate Democrats currently have the ability to stymie Trump’s agenda in the upper chamber because they have 48 votes, which means they can band together to block some of his more controversial plans.
Poster Comment:
As I've stated before, shut this abomination down!!!! No pay for the layoffs caused....including that of Congressrats! Paul Ryan and McConnell are Trump's and America's enemies just like the damned Democrats. They have made sure Trump has no money to build the wall so time is now to take action.
President Trump must take control and move the PEOPLES Agenda and not Paul Ryan's. Preibus is useless to this administration and he works and lies for Paul Ryan. Wake up! Your supporters are sick of the liberals and the spend, spend, insanity. Fire half of the union employees in Washington and the agencies and then get rid of the UNIONS so they have to do their jobs.
Sorry but this is not what I voted for.
