US needs September ‘shutdown’ to fix Senate ‘mess’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday raised the spectre of a government shutdown in September or an immediate end to filibusters in the Senate so that he might gain more leverage in the next round of budget talks. “I get that frustration because I think it is a awful posture for the Democrats to take”.

That amount is far less than the roughly $70 billion needed, according to a recent report by Democratic staff of the U.S. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

And the Texas Republican pushed back on Trump call to change the Senate rules.

Instead, funding for the National Institute of Health is increased by $2 billion, despite Trump’s budget plan calling for cuts to the program, and the bill will also deliver money for clean energy and science funding.

“The President has been complaining about the lack of bipartisanship in Washington”, the New York Democrat said in a statement.

In this week’s spending negotiations, Trump lost a bid for money to start construction of a wall along the US border with Mexico to thwart illegal immigration, one of his key presidential campaign vows, and there are no curbs on federal grant money for cities that refuse to detain illegal immigrants he wants to deport.

President Donald Trump and his top officials’ frustrations with Democrats’ victory lap over the budget negotiations spilled over into the White House briefing room Tuesday as two Cabinet-level officials took to the podium.

While he said he didn’t expect a shutdown in September, Mulvaney said a good shutdown would be one that “fixes this town”.

Despite concessions on issues like border wall funding, Trump says at a U.S. Air Force Academy Commander-in-Chief trophy presentation that, “our Republican team had its own victory – under the radar”.

Trump has not yet signed the budget deal but is expected to do so, despite his misgivings about the compromises.

Last Thursday, Trump had tweeted that Democrats were threatening to close national parks as part of the negotiations “and shut down the government”.

Last month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expanded that move to secure approval of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.But Cornyn, speaking to reporters, said using it to muscle through legislation without a consensus could lead to “really bad policy” on a number of issues: “It’s a real mistake”.

On Trump’s latest Tweets, McCain said: “I wish he’d think twice before tweeting”.

McConnell was responding to a question about a tweet in which Trump suggested changing the rules so that legislation could pass on a simple majority vote.

“Here we saw Democrats and Republicans working together in the best traditions of the Senate, and the president disparages it in a way that’s destructive”, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Spineless snowflake Republicans melt into a puddle at the thought of a government shutdown, even though only 17% of the government actually shuts down, and all the federal workers who are furloughed wind up with a paid vacation. “We knew that if we didn’t push things too far we could get a good deal that could make us happy and that’s what happened”.

Mulvaney cited a $15 billion infusion of defense spending – about half of what Trump asked for in March – as a huge win. “President Trump may not like what he sees in this budget deal, but it’s risky and irresponsible to respond by calling for a shutdown”, said Sen.

Democrats had sought additional spending for nondefense accounts to match Pentagon increases above spending caps set by a 2015 budget pact negotiated with former President Barack Obama.