Democrats Claim White House Declining Government Closure Discussions as President Repeats Warning of Job Cuts
A top administration advisor has indicated that extensive layoffs of federal employees could start if the chief executive concludes that negotiations to end the federal closure are "absolutely going nowhere|making no progress|stalled completely}."
Kevin Hassett stated to the news network that he still perceived a possibility that Democratic lawmakers would back down, but mentioned that the president was "gearing up to act|take action|intervene" if necessary.
Deadlocked Talks
No substantial indications of negotiations have surfaced between legislative representatives since Trump met with them recently. The shutdown began on the first of October, after upper chamber Democratic senators turned down a interim funding proposal that would continue government departments functioning through to 21 November.
"Democrats have declined to talk with us," Senate Democratic leader the Senate minority leader stated to CBS, asserting the deadlock could be solved only by further talks between the president and the key congressional leaders.
Political Claims
The GOP House speaker claimed Democrats of being "lacking seriousness" in discussions to resolve the national closure, while the Democratic representative faulted GOP lawmakers of driving the crisis.
Additional Developments
- American military apparently attacked another ship unlawfully transporting drugs off the coast of the South American nation
- The governor of California announced that he is taking legal action against the president over the assignment of 300 California national guard personnel to Oregon
- The homeland security secretary described the Illinois city "a war zone" after government officers fired upon a woman
- Negotiators have landed in the Egyptian capital before discussions scheduled to focus on the liberation of prisoners held by Hamas in the Palestinian territory
Recent Governmental Developments
- Out-of-power Democrats have embraced the uncertain approach of a federal closure as their strongest effort yet to curb a chief executive whom many citizens and constitutional scholars now view as a danger to US democracy
- Trump is increasing his criticism on Soros little more than a year before the congressional elections for the legislative branch, in what's been called a "chilling warning to other supporters"
- The administration is targeting 100 million acres of timberland across the nation for logging
