Pelosi said the President is “insensitive” to the situation of over 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown. Schumer said Trump is “cruel” and “callous” because he is “using millions of people as sort of pawns.”
Two federal employees unions sued already the Trump administration over the shutdown.
Majority of Americans blame Trump for the shutdown
Earlier this month, Trump threatened to keep the shutdown for months or even years until he gets funding for the border wall. He said, “We won’t be opening [the government] until it is solved. We think this is a much bigger problem. The border is a much more dangerous problem…We won’t be doing pieces. We won’t be doing it in drips and drabs.”
Last month, he said he will take the blame for the shutdown over his demand for border wall funding.
Recent surveys showed that a majority of Americans are blaming the Trump for the shutdown.
A Quinnipiac University poll showed that 56 percent of American voters said Trump and Republicans in Congress are responsible for the shutdown.
