Mulvaney: Dems Sought Shutdown to Make Trump Look Bad

Part of that money, he said, will go toward the construction of a border fence, which is like a wall, but actually better.

"I think the total spending is $ 347 million on that, but we have not done the math yet", Mulvaney stated.

The White House boasted of $15 billion in emergency funding to jumpstart Trump's promise to rebuild the military and an extra $1.5 billion for border security. "This is what winning looks like". Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney spoke to the White House press corps Tuesday to defend the recent spending bill passed by Congress that narrowly avoided a government shutdown and saw President Trump and the GOP caving in to Democrats on almost every single budget item, including continuing to fund Planned Parenthood, Obamacare subsidies, but not securing funds for the president's border wall.

On Tuesday, however, Trump took to Twitter, angrily reacting to media reports depicting Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY as winners in the negotiations.

The two senior administration officials who spoke to CNN on Tuesday said Trump and Kelly had planned to address Democratic claims head on at the signing of the omnibus bill - particularly with regard to the border wall - but some of Trump's senior advisers outside the communications shop pushed for Mulvaney and Kelly to make the case Tuesday instead.

Approval of the spending bill to fund the government through September will spare Trump a harmful government shutdown.

The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We.

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The Director for the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, appeared before the media Tuesday during the regularly scheduled press briefing at the White House.

Negotiators on the bill say it looks pretty much like the measure would have looked like if it had been ironed out previous year under Obama - save for Trump's add-ons for the Pentagon and the border.

"They wanted a shutdown", Mulvaney said.