For someone insisting Trump doesn’t want to be a king, his Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett’s threat to illegally terminate government programs they don’t like sure sounds like he believes Trump has the right to act like one.
Hassett made an appearance on Fox’s Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany this weekend, and had this to say about what would happen if the government shutdown continues into next week:
HASSETT: And you could argue that that’s one reason why the Democrats are trying to shut things down, because by, you know, reducing GDP by $15 billion a week, maybe they’re going to try to keep that up forever. Maybe their idea is to just not let President Trump govern, because whenever Republicans govern, good things happen, and they’ll just try to stop him forever, and we worry about that.
If you look at the No King story, it’s a good story. We’ve heard it really from moderate Democrats, that they just can’t step in front of this No King’s rally and open the government, but we gotta see next week what happens.
If they don’t open the government next week, I really don’t know how long it’s gonna take, maybe the Republicans are gonna have to take extreme measures.
MCENANY: Wow, what would those extreme measures look like?
