President Trump’s budget director aimed to tamp down talk of a government shut down that could happen next week.
“No one foresees or wants a shutdown next week,” said Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, on Fox News Sunday.
Mulvaney didn’t say if Trump would sign a spending bill without funding for a border wall. However, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly warned on CNN that Trump is willing to shut down the federal government over the wall dispute.
Mulvaney previously floated a proposal to tie paying for the border wall to funding for Obamacare insurer payments. But a spokesman for Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said that Mulvaney is aiming to hold people’s healthcare hostage in order to get a border wall.
Congress needs to reach a spending bill deal by April 28 in order to avert a shutdown.
Other Republicans were doubtful there would be a shutdown.
Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he doesn’t think there will be a government shutdown but there could be a debate over wall funding, especially since Trump said that Mexicans would pay for it.
