Trump on Shutdown: ‘We’ll Be Making Cuts that Will Be Permanent — and We’re Only Going to Cut Democrat Programs’

Trump: “And we’ll be making cuts that will be permanent and we’re only going to cut Democrat programs — I hate to tell you, I guess that makes sense — but we’re only cutting Democrat programs. But we’re going to start that. And we have — Russell, we can talk to you about it if he wants to, but we’re — we’ll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly, because that’s the way it works. They wanted to do this, so we’ll give them a little taste of their own medicine.”