Six days into the government shutdown, and little progress has been made. President Donald Trump and Republicans have cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats’ health care demands, while Democrats insist Republicans need to negotiate. The reason for the shutdown is that they couldn’t agree on the budget. The government is shut down until they agree. The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. On Wednesday, after the Senate was unable to pass Democratic and Republican proposals on Tuesday.
Both proposals fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass. The Democratic plan, which would have restored $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts passed into law this summer on top of a permanent extension of the Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, went down along party lines, 47-53.
Trump said Democrats were “taking a risk” in not supporting the Republicans’ clean continuing resolution, because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut a large number of people. We don’t want to do that, but we don’t want fraud, waste, and abuse.”
