{"id":33417,"date":"2025-10-18T06:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnnweb.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:08:59","slug":"donald-trump-blames-democrats-for-ongoing-federal-shutdown-calls-it-schumer-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediapbn.com\/?p=33417","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump blames Democrats for ongoing federal shutdown, calls it \u2018Schumer Shutdown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Washington DC [US], October 18, 2025: US President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown, referring to it as a \u201cDemocrat shutdown\u201d and accusing them of blocking efforts to curb illegal immigration.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe shutdown continues. The Republican Party will not spend one and a half trillion dollars on illegal immigrants entering our country \u2014 people coming from prisons, from jails, from Venezuela and other nations. We\u2019re not going to do that. This is a Democrat shutdown \u2014 a Schumer shutdown \u2014 because his career has failed,\u201d Trump said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The federal government shutdown has now entered its 18th day, with no signs of resolution. According to CBS News, senators have failed ten times to reach an agreement during voting sessions this week, leaving the funding stalemate unresolved.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This marks the third-longest government shutdown in modern US history, surpassed only by those of 1995 and 2018\u201319. Government shutdowns, in their current form, have been occurring since 1980.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Senate Majority Leader John Thune adjourned the Senate for the weekend following Thursday\u2019s failed votes, ensuring that the funding lapse will persist until at least Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The House of Representatives, which has been adjourned since September 19, has no immediate plans to reconvene until the impasse is resolved, CBS News reported.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC [US], October 18, 2025: US President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18e12f979c7dbcc2096868fc531de295a11443c392b4bb6e60ce343131707eaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Washington DC [US], October 18, 2025: US President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown,","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Others"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":1,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/mediapbn.com\/?author=3"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18e12f979c7dbcc2096868fc531de295a11443c392b4bb6e60ce343131707eaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/mediapbn.com\/?cat=1557\">Others<\/a>","videoUrl":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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