Trump Seizes on Shutdown to Punish Political Foes

Trump seizes on shutdown to punish political foes

WASHINGTON — President Trump has embarked on a legally dubious campaign to weaponize the federal budget during a contentious government shutdown, halting more than $27 billion in approved funding in a bid to punish Democratic-led cities and states.

GOP says it's winning the shutdown

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has embraced the federal shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash spending and shrink government, but new rounds of targeted spending cuts from the White House aimed at Democratic states and priorities are raising concerns…

Trump sees shutdown as tool to shrink government, target foes

The president’s failure to achieve funding for his border wall in 2018 shutdown informed his less compromising strategy this time.

Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes

“President Trump has embarked on a legally dubious campaign to weaponize the federal budget during a contentious government shutdown, halting more than $27 billion in approved funding in a bid to punish Democratic-led cities and states,” the New York Times reports. “Rather than broker a legislative truce or seek to ameliorate the fallout of a costly fiscal stalemate, the president has leveraged the crisis to exact revenge on rivals, slash federa…

Trump Shutdown Strategy: No Pain, Unlike Obama’s - American Faith

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Breitbart News Daily that the Trump administration is working to limit the impact of the ongoing Democrat-led shutdown on the American people, in contrast to the Obama administration’s strategy during past shutdowns. Burgum accused former President Barack Obama of deliberately making government closures as painful as possible for ordinary Americans. He pointed to the 2013 shutdown, when the Obama administratio…

Exclusive — Interior Sec. Doug Burgum: We're Trying to Keep Things Open Unlike During the Obama-Era Shutdown

The Trump administration is not trying to inflict pain on people during this Democrat shutdown, unlike the former Obama administration.