This is not some partisan political game — this is about people's lives. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are facing furloughs — and many Dreamers are still terrified that they could face deportation. Americans deserve a bipartisan compromise.
The Senate leader of the GOP Mitch McConnell & other GOP voted to shut down the government. Also: “A shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. He can’t even control his party and get people together in a room. A shutdown means the President is weak” -Trump in 2013