Donald Trump hit out at the Democrats on Saturday morning for giving him a 'nice present' of a government shutdown to mark his first anniversary as president.
Trump took to Twitter to blame Democrat lawmakers for the current impasse in Washington in a series of tweets.
He wrote: 'Democrats are far more concerned with illegal immigrants than they are with our great military or safety at our dangerous southern border.
They could have easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead.
' He then added: 'This is the one-year anniversary of my presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present.
' The Senate is expected to resume talks on funding the government at noon.
On the first anniversary of his presidency Saturday, with the stock market roaring and his poll ratings finally rising, Trump had planned to rest at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, feted by friends and admirers.
Instead, Trump stayed in Washington after he was unable to avert the government shutdown.
His failure to win passage by the U.
Congress of a stopgap bill to maintain funding for the federal government further damaged his self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the broken culture in Washington.
Even as the White House began pointing the finger at Democrats, the Republican president came under fire.
'It`s almost like you were rooting for a shutdown,' Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said of Trump on Saturday.
Trump, who in July 2016 said: 'Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it,' has asserted that past government shutdowns were the fault of the person in the White House.
As this new shutdown, the first since 2013, looked increasingly likely on Friday, Trump made a last-ditch effort to behave as the kind of problem-solver he has long claimed to be.
First, he postponed a long-planned weekend trip to his winter home Mar-a-Lago, where a lavish $100,000-a-couple fundraiser on Saturday would extol his first year in office.
He had little choice.
Critics would have hammered him for attending such an event while government workers were being put on leave and many government services curtailed.
Then Trump called Schumer, and, after a positive conversation, invited him to a meeting at the White House.
It was intimate - just the president, Schumer and top aides.
Republican leaders were excluded.
The idea was to find some common ground.
It lasted 90 minutes.
One person familiar with the events said the two men agreed to seek a grand deal in which Democrats would win protections from deportation for some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants known as 'Dreamers' and Trump would get more money for a border wall and tighter security to stem illegal immigration from Mexico.
By early evening, however, that plan was dead.
The source said Trump had spoken in the meantime with conservative Republicans and been hit with their objections to the deal with Schumer.
'He did not press his party to accept it,' Schumer said later.
The day seemed part of a familiar pattern that has driven Democrats to distraction.
Trump courts their support and suggests flexibility, only to pivot and side with more conservative lawmakers.
It happened in September, after he cut a short-term government funding deal with Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
Weeks later, when Schumer and Pelosi thought they had reached an agreement to preserve a program that protected Dreamers, congressional sources said Trump walked away.
That stand-off lasted until earlier this month, when Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin reached a bipartisan proposal on immigration.
They believed Trump had signaled he would support it.
But in a heated Oval Office meeting, Trump savaged the deal.
A Democratic senator alleged that Trump said the United States needed to take fewer immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to them as 'sh
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Trump took to Twitter to blame Democrat lawmakers for the current impasse in Washington in a series of tweets.
He wrote: 'Democrats are far more concerned with illegal immigrants than they are with our great military or safety at our dangerous southern border.
They could have easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead.
' He then added: 'This is the one-year anniversary of my presidency and the Democrats wanted to give me a nice present.
' The Senate is expected to resume talks on funding the government at noon.
On the first anniversary of his presidency Saturday, with the stock market roaring and his poll ratings finally rising, Trump had planned to rest at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, feted by friends and admirers.
Instead, Trump stayed in Washington after he was unable to avert the government shutdown.
His failure to win passage by the U.
Congress of a stopgap bill to maintain funding for the federal government further damaged his self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the broken culture in Washington.
Even as the White House began pointing the finger at Democrats, the Republican president came under fire.
'It`s almost like you were rooting for a shutdown,' Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said of Trump on Saturday.
Trump, who in July 2016 said: 'Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it,' has asserted that past government shutdowns were the fault of the person in the White House.
As this new shutdown, the first since 2013, looked increasingly likely on Friday, Trump made a last-ditch effort to behave as the kind of problem-solver he has long claimed to be.
First, he postponed a long-planned weekend trip to his winter home Mar-a-Lago, where a lavish $100,000-a-couple fundraiser on Saturday would extol his first year in office.
He had little choice.
Critics would have hammered him for attending such an event while government workers were being put on leave and many government services curtailed.
Then Trump called Schumer, and, after a positive conversation, invited him to a meeting at the White House.
It was intimate - just the president, Schumer and top aides.
Republican leaders were excluded.
The idea was to find some common ground.
It lasted 90 minutes.
One person familiar with the events said the two men agreed to seek a grand deal in which Democrats would win protections from deportation for some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants known as 'Dreamers' and Trump would get more money for a border wall and tighter security to stem illegal immigration from Mexico.
By early evening, however, that plan was dead.
The source said Trump had spoken in the meantime with conservative Republicans and been hit with their objections to the deal with Schumer.
'He did not press his party to accept it,' Schumer said later.
The day seemed part of a familiar pattern that has driven Democrats to distraction.
Trump courts their support and suggests flexibility, only to pivot and side with more conservative lawmakers.
It happened in September, after he cut a short-term government funding deal with Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
Weeks later, when Schumer and Pelosi thought they had reached an agreement to preserve a program that protected Dreamers, congressional sources said Trump walked away.
That stand-off lasted until earlier this month, when Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin reached a bipartisan proposal on immigration.
They believed Trump had signaled he would support it.
But in a heated Oval Office meeting, Trump savaged the deal.
A Democratic senator alleged that Trump said the United States needed to take fewer immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to them as 'sh
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