House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are placing blame on Trump and congressional Republicans for the possibility that the government could shut down next week absent a bipartisan spending agreement.
Trump abruptly canceled a meeting with the Democratic leaders that was planned for this week, writing in social media post yesterday that the meeting would not be productive because of their “unserious and ridiculous demands.”
Schumer and Jeffries said in a statement today that Trump had thrown “an unhinged temper tantrum.”
“With only six days until government funding lapses, Donald Trump and the GOP continue to march this country toward a painful Republican shutdown, while exacerbating the healthcare crisis that they have unleashed in America,” they wrote.
Democrats are open to negotiating an agreement with the GOP that “protects the healthcare of the American people and improves their quality of life,” they wrote.
“By refusing to so much as meet with Democrats, Donald Trump and Republicans are barreling the country toward a painful government shutdown,” they wrote. “The American people will hold President Trump and Republican sycophants in Congress responsible.”