“They offer very little money for the border wall we need, and now, quite unexpectedly, they want the prisoner to contain less convicted criminals for violence!” Wrote Trump on Twitter.
The president noted that he is starting to believe that the Democrats "want to stop the work of the government."
Earlier, the general director of the Russian International Affairs Council, Andrei Kortunov, in a conversation with RT, suggested that the shatdown could repel part of his electoral base from Trump.
The White House did not rule out a new shatdaun by February 15.