anybody. donald s whole career, all 30 years i have known him, he never keeps his word. he has no honor. so what we are seeing now is a farce. donald trump, the white house reality show, season 2. and this could really come to a problem for him and for the republicans. the federal government is roughly one-fifth of our economy. the last time we add shut down, that lasted relatively short period of time, it reduced economic growth. and there are all sorts of businesses that need government services in order to conduct their business. small business that depend on federal workers going to work and buyg lunch and putting gas in their cars and paying to park at parking lots. that s going to damage the economy and there s only one person to blame if this slows down economy any, it s donald trump who said, i m the great negotiator. and obviously he s not. he certainly isn t going to like a slowing down of the economy if that is what happens under his watch.
part of the problem is complete trust deficit between and even within the parties. democrats don t trust the president and even republicans don t necessarily know where he stands. it will make it very difficult to get a deal. that s the overarching theme throughout the last couple of hours it seems. in talking with people and the lack of trust with the president but also republicans not necessarily trusting president as well. and of course republican and democrats not trusting each other. wow. nbc s derek hague, thank you. thousands of undocumented immigrants is one of the major issues at the center. up. in, new york congressman about his party s fight to save the d.r.e.a.m.ers.
hospitals from the dangerous effects of obamacare. these are things democrats support but aren t willing to sign on to. that concerns me. i have heard it called the trump shut down. i think that s furtherest from the truth. let me say something, though, the president does not vote in the house of representatives nor the senate. is the president not considered the negotiator in chief and he said set the best out there. right. and you call senator schumer, you call it the schumer shut down but schumer saying he has been given mixed messages. the president telling him to negotiate with congressional republicans and congressional republicans telling him to negotiate with the white house. that s an excuse. that was almost a week ago. that is today. fine. has senator schumer made an offer to deal with the situation
is schumer shut down, hashtag schumer shut down. people are reading this and they do a quick bullet point and they are seeing this and say oh, democrats did that. this could have pretty bad ramifications for mid terms. interesting you brought up union members. we had two union members on our show in the last hour, basically both blaming president trump for this shut down. so emily, does noel have a point? could short of these union members jump ship with this whole thing? look, i think we should live in reality and not in republican talking points. republicans control every branch of the federal government. the reason democrats are saying oh, where is the negotiator in chief is because republicans don t even know how to follow their leader. they have no idea what he is going to sign. there was a bipartisan agreement brought to trump. brought to him twice. and schumer says that he agreed to it in that room and there is no reason not to believe him because trump made similar comments
sha shameful they would not support paying our military men and women and not support death benefits for those killed in action. you say the republicans are holding the military hostage and i feel like this is where the problems lies, the white house releasing a statement i just read earlier on in my introduction to you that the democrats are holding the military hostage. no, look, there are so many bills that republican authored. if they would come to the floor for a vote they would pass and get on to the budget. whether it is lindsey graham s d.r.e.a.m. act or food dreamers act. taking care of veterans. these already exist. republican authored. remember, the republican leader of the senate controls what is allowed on the floor to vote and controls whether or not they object to something as simple as paying out military during the shut down and at every single turn they have said no. nator, how much does this fat lie on the lack of leadership from the white house? we heard senat