President Trump on Monday signaled his support for a Senate agreement to end the government shutdown and said he would abide by the deal, which includes a reversal of mass layoffs.
“It depends what deal we’re talking about,” Trump said when asked in the Oval Office if he supported the Senate deal, which advanced on Sunday.
“But if it’s the deal I heard about … I would say so,” Trump continued. “I think based on everything I’m hearing they haven’t changed anything, and we have support from enough Democrats, and we’re going to be opening up our country. It’s too bad it was closed, but we’re going to be opening up our country very quickly.”
Asked specifically if he would agree to the provision that reverses the widespread federal layoffs his administration carried out early on in the shutdown, Trump said he would.
“I will be. I’ll abide by the deal. The deal is very good,” Trump said.
The Senate voted late Sunday 60-40 to proceed to a House-passed continuing resolution to reopen the government, with eight Democrats joining with Republicans to break an impasse that had dragged on for 40 days.
The Senate is expected to give the deal its full approval on Monday, with the House slated to vote on its passage later this week.
The agreement funds the government to Jan. 30 at current levels, and it reinstates federal workers who were laid off during the shutdown and provides protections against future layoffs.
The deal does not include any extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year and were the central demand Democrats had made in calling for reopening the government.
Source: The Hill
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