“A Democrat shutdown,” says Trump as US government shutdown enters day 18

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“The shutdown continues. The Republican Party is not going to pay a trillion and a half dollars to illegal immigrants coming into our country, coming in for a lot of reasons, coming in from prisons, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries. We’re not going to do that. So the shutdown continues. It’s a Democrat shutdown. It’s a Schumer shutdown because his career has failed, and it’s over,” he said.

The government shutdown in in its eighteenth day with no end in sight, after senators failed for the 10th time to resolve the impasse in votes on Thursday, CBS News reported.

The shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, eclipsed only by the shutdowns of 1995 and 2018-19. Shutdowns are a relatively recent phenomenon, having only