Feds on Trump’s shutdown threat: ‘It's blackmail’

The Washington Post: President Trump’s latest threat to shut the government is just the most recent indication that he is unfit and unprepared for the office.

The notion that the president of the United States would purposefully imperil services to taxpayers if Congress doesn’t approve $1.6 billion for his Mexico border wall would be far-fetched, if a credible person occupied the White House.

“Build that wall,” he said in Phoenix this week. “Now the obstructionist Democrats would like us not to do it. But believe me, if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”

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