SHAFAQNA– Ilhan Omar one of the first Muslim women in U.S congress said in twitter that Trump shuts down the government over a wall that Americans don’t want. A waste of billions of dollars.
The U.S government partially shut down at midnight Saturday after the White House and Senate failed to pass a spending bill. President Trump had insisted he would not sign any spending bill that did not include $5 billion for the border wall along the border with Mexico, CNN reported.
The agencies affected include the departments of Homeland Security, State, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice and Transportation, as well as Nasa, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency.
About 800,000 federal workers at those agencies won’t be paid.
Democrat Ilhan Omar one of the first Muslim women in U.S congress took to Twitter noting that “If Trump shuts down the government: 420,000 Americans will be forced to work without pay over the holidays. 380,000 will be furloughed. 30 million small businesses will lose access to loans”.
She added “All of this, over a wall that Americans don’t want. A waste of billions of dollars”.
The longest government shutdown began in December of 1995, and lasted 21 days through the holidays. It was part of a policy debate between then-President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich over cutting government spending. But Trump’s fight is fundamentally different, and it’s possible this one will outlast the ’95 fight, Vox told.