Stacey Abrams on Tuesday night preached about the value of bipartisan politics, but also slammed President Trump and Republicans in Congress for their role in the recent government shutdown.
Abrams, who is the first black woman to offer an official response to a State of the Union address, called the 35-day spending gap “a stunt engineered by the President of the United States” in a speech lasting fewer than 15 minutes. The shutdown was triggered in December by a breakdown in negotiations over how to fund President Trump’s campaign promise of a southern border wall.
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