Chuck Schumer: Trump government shutdown threat ‘speaks for itself’

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that President Trump’s declaration that he would “love” to have another government shutdown if Democrats don’t agree to a deal on immigration “speaks for itself.”

“Speaks for itself,” Schumer told reporters at a Senate Democratic press conference. “We had one Trump shutdown, nobody wants another maybe except him.”

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