President Donald Trump could "start taking crisp measures" connected Monday if the government shutdown continues aft the Senate's adjacent votes connected stopgap backing bills, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said.
Hassett's informing connected CNBC's "Squawk Box" came aft helium said Democrats volition beryllium to blasted for "any authorities idiosyncratic that loses their job" owed to reduction-in-force orders issued successful effect to the shutdown.
The Trump medication has repeatedly asserted that the shutdown volition effect successful thousands of national employees being laid off, alternatively than simply furloughed, arsenic has been the lawsuit successful past backing lapses.
Hassett said Monday greeting that helium expects Trump and different officials volition beryllium successful the Oval Office watching the Senate's upcoming ballot connected a Republican backing connection that, if passed, would extremity the shutdown.
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Dueling Republican and Democratic bills person already failed to walk galore times since the shutdown began six days earlier, aft enactment leaders could not negociate a compromise to support the authorities open.
Both Republicans' "clean" resolution, which would resume backing astatine existent levels done precocious November, and Democrats' version, which includes further health-care backing and different measures, are acceptable to travel to a ballot again aft 5:30 p.m. ET.
Trump volition beryllium "hoping that we're going to get the authorities to halt being unopen down" during those votes, Hassett told CNBC.
"But if not, past I would conjecture that squad successful the Oval is going to commencement taking crisp measures," helium said.
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