Trump and Democrats play blame game over government shutdown

President calls it a Democratic shutdown, while Democrats chide Trump’s ‘temper tantrum’

The US awoke on Saturday to a partial government shutdown after Democrats in Congress refused to fund Donald Trump’s border wall and the president in turn refused to sign budget legislation. A battle to apportion blame duly followed.

Trump said Americans should “call it a Democrat shutdown”, while Democratic leaders said the president had thrown “a temper tantrum”.

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