Trump threatens shutdown, says Biden will be blamed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The House and Senate were prepared to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) that the Republican Speaker, Mike Johnson, had proposed, until billionaire tech CEO and co-chair of Trump's nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, began tweeting about it.
43% : "There won't be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with," Trump said, Karl reports.
33% : " Congressional correspondent Jamie Dupree described Trump's remarks by saying, "Trump again turns up the heat on Republicans to do what most of them oppose - eliminate or raise the debt ceiling.
29% : Now Trump is demanding space to add unlimited levels of debt."
24% : As President, Donald Trump oversaw three, including the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
20% : "If we don't get it, then we're going to have a shutdown, but it'll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only inure to the person who's president," Trump told ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Thursday.
19% : "I'm so confused," Riedl wrote, "because Trump and his acolytes kept attacking Biden's deficits and debt limit hikes, and instead promised to balance the budget and even pay down the debt.
13% : In a statement late Wednesday afternoon, Trump also said: "Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we'd rather do it on Biden's watch." There have been no government shutdowns under President Joe Biden.
6% : "Trump actually thinks the government shutdown will be blamed on Biden.

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