President Donald Trump again called on Democrats to fund the government on Monday, Day 26 of the government shutdown, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his caucus continue to oppose a clean continuing resolution (CR).

Trump called out Democrats on Air Force One on Monday while en route from Malaysia to Japan on the second leg of his Asia trip, when asked if there is a way to pay air traffic controllers.

“Yeah, there is, but the Democrats should just do a simple extension. The Democrats are holding it up,” Trump said.

“They want $1.5 trillion for people that came out of prisons, or illegal aliens that come into our country. We don’t want to do that because that will really hurt the health care that we have in our country, and frankly, we’d like to see better health care,

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