White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday said that “obviously” President Donald Trump’s administration does not want a congressional battle over government funding to result in a government shutdown.
“Obviously we don’t want the government to shut down, but we want to make sure that we’re funding the priorities of the government,” Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing.
If Congress fails to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government’s operation for the remainder of the fiscal year before the current bill expires, it will cause a shutdown like the one Republican hardliners forced in 2013 in an unsuccessful attempt to repeal Obamacare.
Spicer said that Trump’s proposed budget “is going to begin a conversation that we will continue to have with the House and Senate.”
“I don’t think both of those goals are mutually exclusive,” he added.
Sean just isn’t having a good day.
Even though you asshats seemed to be happy to shut the government down at the drop of a hat under Obama. Hmmm, wonder what changed?
Necessary to identify the “we” in that sentence. The Freedom Caucus loves it and can’t wait for it.
…but we obviously support this type of behavior…It supports the long term agenda to dumb down Americans with leaded water and poisoned food…
You’ve got the Freedom caucus on one side and the Democrats and moderate Republicans on the other.
Who thinks Ryan and Trump have a snowball’s chance in hell of threading that needle?