Hassett: Moderate Dems Likely to Help End Shutdown Soon

The government shutdown will probably end this week because moderate Democrats will no longer support it, top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday.

Hassett explained that with the shutdown in its third week, he heard from the Senate that Democrats thought it would be “bad optics” to vote to reopen the government before this past weekend’s nationwide “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump.

Now that those demonstrations are over, Hassett, who is director of the National Economic Council, said, “There’s a shot that this week things will come together, and very quickly. The moderate Democrats will move forward and get us an open government, at which point we could negotiate whatever policies they want to negotiate with regular order.”