As the US government shutdown stretched into its 18th day, President Donald Trump on Friday, October 17, blamed Democrats for the ongoing impasse, calling it a “Democrat shutdown,” specifically targeting New York Senator Chuck Schumer.

“It's a Democrat shutdown. It's a Schumer shutdown because his career has failed, and it's over,” Trump said, renewing his attacks on Democratic leadership for refusing to pass the funding measures sought by his administration to end the shutdown.

“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 co

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