Democratic leaders accused an isolated President Donald Trump on Monday of sowing Christmas “chaos” after the stock market plummeted and the US government shutdown hit a third day. “It’s Christmas Eve and President Trump is plunging the country into chaos,” Nancy Pelosi, who takes over next month as House speaker, and Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Republican-led Senate, said in a joint statement. In retaliation, Trump refused last week to sign a wider spending bill, temporarily stripping funding from swaths of the government. We need more border security,” Trump said at the White House on Monday. “This is what Washington looks like when you have a president who refuses to sort of go along to get along,” Mulvaney said.

Source: Egypt Independent December 25, 2018 11:26 UTC