President Donald Trump could “start taking net measures” on Monday if the government closed after the next Senate votes on the Stopgap financing bill, said director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett.
Hassett’s warning on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” came after he said that Democrats will be responsible for “any government employee who loses his job” due to force reduction orders issued in response to closure.
The Trump administration has repeatedly said that the closure will lead to thousands of federal licensed employees, rather than simply on leave, as was the case in past financing failures.
Hassett said on Monday morning that he expects Trump and that other officials are in the oval office by looking at the Senate’s future vote on a republican financing proposal which, if adopted, would end the closure.
The republican and democrats’ bills have not managed to pass several times since the start of the closure six days earlier, after the party leaders were unable to negotiate compromise to keep the government open.
The “clean” resolution of the Republicans, which would resume funding at the current levels until the end of November, and the version of the Democrats, which includes additional funding for health care and other measures, should be voted after 5.30 p.m..
Trump “hope we will bring the government to stop being closed” during these votes, Hassett told CNBC.
“But if not, then I suppose that this team in the oval will start taking clear measures,” he said.
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