White House Says Trump Doesn't Want A Government Shutdown
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal | January 17, 2018 2:22 pm
As Congress barrels toward a Friday night deadline to keep the federal government open, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted that President Donald Trump does not want a shutdown, despite the President’s past comments supporting one.
Sanders also made sure to place any blame for a potential shutdown on Democrats in Congress, who are skeptical of a funding deal that does not restore the protections from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“The President certainly doesn’t want to shut down. If one happens, I think you only have one place to look and that’s to the Democrats, who are holding our military and our national security hostage by trying to push through other policies that have nothing to do with the budget,” Sanders said at the daily press briefing when asked how Trump would feel if the government shut down.
When a reporter jumped in to note that Trump said back in May that a shutdown would be good, Sanders said, “It’s never been a preference of this administration. It wasn’t then, it isn’t now. And again, if that does happen, the blame, the fault will all lie at one place because we’d like to see a budget deal.”
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White House Hits Back At Jeff Flake After Senator Criticizes Trump
By Matt Shuham | January 17, 2018 2:07 pm
The White House on Wednesday attacked Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) as desperate for good poll numbers and “a mouthpiece for the oppressive Cuban government” after Arizona’s junior senator harshly criticized the Trump administration’s use of rhetoric like “fake news” and “enemy of the people” to describe the press.
Flake reliably votes the Republican line, but he has stood up to Trump on the Senate floor on issues such as press freedom, as he did Wednesday. He gave a another forceful speech in October, when he announced that he would not be running for re-election.
“In response to Sen. Flake specifically, I found it quite interesting that he is coming out to attack this President, considering he is the one that was recently defending an actually oppressive regime,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said when asked about Flake’s speech. “He went to Cuba a few weeks ago and served as a mouthpiece for the oppressive Cuban government.”
She was referring, presumably, to Flake’s recent statement to the Associated Press regarding what the White House has claimed are government-directed sonic attacks on American tourists and diplomats on the island.
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hey republicans you own him and he owns you........................
You and him are the ones that going to shut this down...................your tea party assholes, your ayn rand assholes, your freedom caucus assholes....................you made your bed......................FUCK YOU
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
