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Trump says ‘we’re only going to cut Democrat programs’ as Senate again fails to pass dueling funding bills

Trump says federal cuts made while government is shut down will ‘only’ target his opponents’s priorities; House-passed bill and Democratic stopgap rejected

Shrai Popat (now) Lucy Campbell and Tom Ambrose (earlier)

Trump says administration is 'only' going to make permanent cuts to 'Democrat programs'

Trumps says that “we will be making cuts that are permanent and we’re only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you”.

“We’re only cutting Democrat programs,” he repeats. “We’ll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly, that’s the way it works.”