President Donald Trump was right to cancel a planned meeting with Democrat leadership, Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told Newsmax, because the Democrats aren’t “serious” about averting a government shutdown. “Until they get serious,” he said, Republicans won’t be able to strike a deal with them on a continuing resolution to fund the government past midnight on Oct. 1.
“What they’re doing is trying to use leverage and increase over $1 trillion of new spending, such as transgender surgeries, having illegals get on Medicaid, and other things that are rolling back everything that the Republicans passed without any Democrat help,” Norman said Wednesday on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “The president is exactly right to cancel any type of meeting with them. They’re not serious. All they want to do is blame Donald Trump for a shutdown, when, in reality, it’s what they’re doing. It’s not what the president’s doing, nor the Republican Congress.”
The South Carolina Republican said that the Democrats have apparently learned nothing from the 2024 election and are pushing for all the things that voters rejected last year when they elected Trump, who promised to end them.
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