President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday helped to blow up a bipartisan deal to keep the federal government open, and he's already trying to shift the blame.
In an interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl, Trump reiterated his warning that any government funding package needed to either significantly raise the debt ceiling or even abolish it completely.
"There won't be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with," Trump said. "If we don't get it, then we're going to have a shutdown, but it'll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only injure to the person who's president."
In reality, past polls have shown that voters tend to blame the party responsible for the government shutdown rather than the president.
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Republican-led government shutdowns during the administrations of former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama backfired on the GOP, as the party eventually agreed to reopen the government without receiving any significant concessions in return.
X owner Elon Musk has openly said that the government should shut down until January 20th, when Trump is inaugurated.
Trump during his first term set the record for the longest-ever government shutdown after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to fund the wall he'd vowed to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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