Trump opposes deal to avert fast-approaching US government shutdown

US President-elect Donald Trump comes out against a mammoth package allocating funding to avert a fast-approaching US government shutdown after a trove of spending added to the text ballooned costs, outraging conservatives.

Suggesting that concessions to Democrats in the bill were “a betrayal of our country,” Trump says in a joint statement with Vice President-elect JD Vance: “Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF.”

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