President Trump’s top economic adviser predicted Monday that moderate Senate Democrats will support reopening the government this week “No Kings” rallies Which happened all over the country.
Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, argued on CNBC that enough Democrats in the Senate could move toward reopening the government to end the shutdown.
“Many of our friends in the Senate have said it was just the wrong approach for Democrats to open the government before the ‘No Kings’ rally,” Hassett said. “And now the possibility is that things will come together this week, and very quickly the moderate Democrats will step forward and give us an open government, at which point we can negotiate all the policies they want to negotiate.”
Millions of Americans gathered at events across the country on Saturday, the second day of “No Kings” rallies this year to protest the Trump administration and its policies.
Hassett pointed to the senator. jean shaheen (D.N.H.), who had expressed uneasiness over the party’s opposition to undrafted funding bills amid the widespread shutdown last week.
hill informed That some Democrats privately acknowledged concerns about the impact on their liberal base if they voted to defund the government after those protests.
“There are some cracks in the Schumer armor. I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end sometime this week,” Hassett said, referring to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
He added, “But I can tell you that if that doesn’t happen… if the story that we’re basically hearing from moderates that we can’t do this in front of the ‘No Kings’ rally, if that doesn’t turn out to be true, then I think the White House is going to have to look very closely with Russ Watts at stronger measures that we can take to get them to the table.”
near the white house already during closure fired from job thousands went towards government employees Cancel Or billions of dollars of funding for major transportation and renewable energy projects in Democrat-led states would be halted.
