Wary of the federal criminal prosecutions against him, former US president Donald Trump is asking fellow Republicans to shut down government by stalling consensus on spending legislation.
New York and Georgia are also prosecuting him and a federal shutdown would not affect those cases. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are at odds over how to proceed with spending legislation, which must be passed to avert an Oct. 1 shutdown. "Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden’s weaponised government," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media site late on Wednesday, calling it"the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots."
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