Trump does his best to keep the government closed.
JUDD LEGUM
JAN 20, 2018, 6:19 PM
The next presidential election is almost 3 years from now. The government was shut down on Saturday at midnight and thousands of government employees have been furloughed or are working without pay.
President Trump is releasing campaign ads.
On Saturday, Trump released an ad through his campaign accusing Democrats that stand in Trump’s way of building a wall along the southern border “will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants.”
The timing of the ad is especially odd because, on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went to the White House and offered to support funding for a border wall in exchange for legal status for DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
Other key Democrats, including Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), have expressed a willingness to fund a wall, which they still oppose, in exchange for legal protections for DREAMers and an end to the government shutdown.
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-tv-ad-democrats-murders-97167efcc202/
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