Speaking in the midst of the government shutdown that has now dragged on for four weeks, President Donald Trump commented on what programs are being cut by the Russ Vought-led Office of Management and Budget (OMB), declaring that Schumer-beloved, Democrat programs are getting cut as punishment for the Democrats’ intransigence on the shutdown issue.
As background, the shutdown began on October 1, after the Senate failed to strike a deal on funding the government with a continuing resolution. Republicans insisted that they could not agree to Democrat proposals, as those are filled with things like funding for illegal alien healthcare, and noted that Democrats won’t fund a “clean” CR that is largely devoid of partisan spending.
So, with the government shut down, OMB has much more discretion in what it does and doesn’t fund, and it is going to start cutting programs. Trump, telling as much to reporters, said, “I hate to tell you, I guess that makes sense, but we’re only cutting Democrat programs, but we’re going to start that, and we have Russ Vought.”
Continuing, the president noted that what Director Vought’s OMB is cutting is a collection of programs popular with Democrats and unpopular with Republicans, saying, “We can talk to you about it if he wants to, but we’re we’ll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly, because that’s the way it works.”
He added that the Democrats are getting their just deserts of being intransigent about refunding the government, saying, “They wanted to do this, so we’ll get a little taste of their own medicine. But Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that every day gets better for them. No, every day it’s actually getting worse for them.”
Turning from slamming the Democrats generally to ridiculing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). he said, “And they’re having a rebellion in the Democrat Party because they want to stop and if you saw all of Schumer’s I watched last night like 10 different times over the years, he said, ‘You can’t shut down government. You can’t shut down.’ And now he’s the one that shut it down.”
And, commenting on how Democrats are losing with the American people because they are serving partisan interests rather than working for the American people. Explaining as much, he said, “So this is a confession that he’s acting not to serve the people, but to serve the partisan interests of this party. And I don’t think he served very well, because they’re way down. Look, they just lost an election and a landslide. You know? It was interesting.”
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Concluding, the president commented on how he beat Kamala Harris in a landslide thanks to that general disgust with the Democrats exhibited by the American people, saying, “I watched Kamala, sad figure. I watched her the other day, saying the election was very close. I said, No, the election was a landslide. We won the popular vote by millions. We won the electoral college by, I think, 312, or 315, to 220, some.”
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