This stalemate is just the latest in a long line of threats from President Trump to shut down the government if he doesn’t get his way. (Video: Jenny Starrs /Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
In 2014, Donald Trump sued to have his name taken off a pair of Atlantic City casinos he built three decades earlier that had gone bankrupt.
It took the president just 10 days this month to remove his name from something else he once proudly owned but that wasn’t going great — the federal government shutdown.
After threatening a shutdown for months over border wall funding and vowing last week that he would “take the mantle” of responsibility, Trump tried to shift the blame Friday, just hours before a government funding bill expired at midnight.
View the complete December 22 article by David Nakamura on The Washington Post website here.