Last night Congressional efforts to pass a Continuing Resolution to avoid a government shutdown fell apart, partly over a measure in the bill that would grant a pay raise to members of Congress. The bill was strongly opposed by President Trump.
President Trump has now released the following statement regarding the Continuing Resolution:
Nobody deserves a pay raise better than Donald Trump and if anyone is going to get a pay raise Donald Trump should be the first person on the list. Considering that I am doing at least twice the job that any President has ever done in history it would not be a bad idea to even raise the pay for the President to DOUBLE what it is now.
Congress must also immediately CUT SPENDING to avoid hitting the debt ceiling in 2025. I don’t care what they have to cut except for my pay raise, just cut it and make sure that we don’t reach the debt ceiling. If it takes a government shut down, then SHUT IT DOWN. Hard working Americans who are struggling to make ends meet overwhelmingly voted for Trump to make their lives better and Democrats must obey.
This was a filthy dirty trick the Democrats played to spend money like drunken sailors because they knew that Trump was coming back in 2025 and they wanted to set me up to take the fall. Republicans should have made sure that way more money had been spent under Biden so that he was blamed for the debt ceiling. Republicans must be smarter and tougher so that all the things that will happen no matter what will always be blamed on the Democrats.
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