President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the ongoing government shutdown is an opportunity to close “Democrat programs that we want to close up or we never wanted to happen.”
“The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown because we’re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to. So, we’re being and — and they’re never going to come back in many cases,” Trump said, when asked about when he’d start bringing parties together to negotiate an end to the ongoing government shutdown.
“So we’re being able to do things that we were unable to do before. So, we’re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we wanted to close up or that we never wanted to happen. And now we’re closing them up, and we’re not going to let them come back.”
Trump indicated that a list of the programs that will be cut is expected to come on Friday.
Trump later clarified that Democratic programs include things “that we disagree with,” but didn’t offer any specific examples. Trump said “Republican programs” would not be terminated.
