at this hour. thousands of u.s. government workers are on furlough. and the won t report it work on monday. the u.s. senate could not pass a deal to fund the u.s. government. that triggered a shut down at midnight saturday. republicans and democrats blame each other for the closure. the white house called democrats obstructionist losers. lawmakers plan to meet separately in the coming hours to figure out what to do nerks. democrats call it the trump shut down. republicans call it the schumer shut down. so blame on both sides. going wac and forth. americans are doing double thumbs down. at washington right now. the government shut down begins at president trump reaches a milestone in his presidency. saturday marks one year since he was sworn in to office. and he begins this second yore with a government shutdown. he campaigned on improving ties
democrats wanted to use their leverage to get a deal on the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. republicans wanted to get funding for border security. after 10:00, senators started casting their votes. the measure needed 60 votes to pass, it got 50. four republicans voted with the democrats. the white house blamed the outcome, calling democrats obstructionist losers. senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, also criticized the democrats. almost everybody on both sides don t understand how we ended up here. most of the stuff, we agree on. there s only one reason we ended up here. it s shoe horning. illegal immigration in this
know what happens next for them? we already know what the americans think of congress. what are they going to think now? thank you so much. did you notice on that tweet by president trump 69,000 liked it. when he said what we need is a good government shut down. clearly remembers of the base support the president. no matter what he says. thank you for being with us. no surprise the blame game from both parties started quickly on twitter. paul ryan tweeted senate democrats have let down our troops, our children and all americans. all of this is just unnecessary. it is reckless. senate democrats have brought us to a shut down. democratic congressman. writes quote republicans control all the government. there can be no disputing who is responsible for the grossly irresponsible work of shutting down the government. democratic senator calls the shut down avoidable. she writes the white house created this crisis. and the gop leaders in congress
even if the democrats are holding out on the d.r.e.a.m.ers. the fact is, the republicans and president trump are going to even more extreme lengths to remake what is an american? what is their attitude toward immigrants at all? we saw last week from the remarks reported, president trump prefers norwegians and people like them as opposed to areas like africa and haiti and so on. hmm. so, again, the breaking news at this hour, certainly the government shutdown. this day, in particular gives us a chance to look at a year in review of president trump s year in office. let s look at how the rest of the world looked at this. his approval rating across 134 countries at a low of 30%. let s look at the graphic, if we have it. significantly below the two
there were signs a government shutdown might be avoided. as the hours ticked away all hope of a deal faded away. cnn jeff zelny explains. on the one year anniversary of the inauguration a federal government shutdown. the senate failed to pass the house passed version to keep the government open. that funding deadline expired midnight friday. president trump will be waking up saturday here at the white house. now presiding over his first government shutdown. not since 2013 has there been a government shutdown. then of course it was president obama. a 16 day government shutdown. to be exact. at that point, then donald trump private citizen donald trump said tfrs the president s responsibility to lead the way out. now indeed it is this president s responsibility to do the same. of course oo predictable fight broke out friday evening between republicans and democrats. white house called it a schumer shut down.