Schumer Heads To White House For Shutdown Talks

January 19, 2018 News, Politics

The Los Angeles Times reports:

With a federal shutdown looming, President Trump reached out Friday to Senate Democratic Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and invited him to the White House for talks, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

Schumer, who reached a previous budget deal with Trump last fall over the strong objections of GOP leaders, was headed to the White House, the source said.

The meeting comes as Congress pushed the federal government to the brink of a shutdown. Senate Democrats — joined by some GOP deficit hawks and immigration allies — were set to filibuster a stopgap funding bill ahead of a midnight deadline.

Fox News reports:



The White House coined a decidedly Trumpian phrase Friday in the battle to assign blame for the looming budget standoff, branding it the “Schumer Shutdown.”

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, speaking to reporters at a press conference hours before an imminent government shutdown Friday night, pointed the finger at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, for Democrats refusing to back a short-term spending bill unless it includes protections for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

The nickname echoed President Trump’s well-documented penchant for hanging nicknames on political adversaries. The move comes as Republicans and Democrats scramble to assign blame to their opponents, knowing that whoever is seen to be behind the shutdown is also under pressure to return to the bargaining table.

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