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Earlier this week, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he was “increasingly worried that President Trump may want to shut down the government again because of impeachment.” On Sunday, Trump was given a chance to rule out that possibility — but declined to do so.
From December 22, 2018, to January 25 of the current year, Trump oversaw the longest government shutdown in United States history. The issue at that time was the refusal of Congress to approve funding for a southern border wall. Building the wall was Trump’s central promise in his 2016 presidential campaign. As PBS reported, polls showed that 54 percent of Americans directly blamed Trump fro the lengthy shutdown, which put thousands of federal employees out of work over the holiday season.