President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration plans to use the ongoing government shutdown to permanently cut government programs popular with Democrats, his latest threat amid the funding stalemate.
“We’re only cutting Democrat programs,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
It was not immediately clear which programs would fit that description, but Trump specified that they were “very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly.”
“They wanted to do this,” Trump said, doubling down on blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
“So we’ll get a little taste of their own medicine,” he added.
