President Donald Trump said Tuesday he does not want a government shutdown, but warned that one could give his administration an opportunity to make deep, lasting cuts that opponents would not be able to reverse.
“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
However, he said that Republicans and the White House don’t want to shut down the government at midnight.
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