Congress, once again, finds itself days away from a potential government shutdown, and a fight over immigration could stand in the way of a deal to prevent it.
“It could happen,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “Democrats are really looking at something that is very dangerous for our country. They are looking at shutting down. They want to have illegal immigrants in many cases, people that we don’t want in our country, they want to have illegal immigrants pouring into our country.”
Democrats say that’s wrong on multiple counts — that they don’t want immigrants streaming into the country illegally, nor do they want a shutdown. That speculation by Trump further heightened tensions ahead of a planned Thursday with the president and congressional leaders at the White House.
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