Schumer slams Trump for 'skipping city' on Asia journey amid shutdown

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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., on Friday accused President Donald Trump of "skipping city" for a visit to Asia throughout the ongoing authorities shutdown.

Trump departed for Asia Friday evening for a weeklong journey that can embrace stops in Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. Republicans and Democrats stay divided on negotiations to finish the shutdown that started earlier this month, with both sides blaming the opposite because the GOP controls the White Home and each chambers of Congress.

"Within the midst of the longest full government shutdown in American historical past — a disaster of his personal making — President Trump’s priorities are severely misplaced," Schumer mentioned in a press release.

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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer accused President Donald Trump of "skipping city" for a visit to Asia throughout the ongoing authorities shutdown. (AP Picture/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

"Whereas Individuals are struggling to make ends meet, federal employees are going with out pay, and hundreds of thousands of households are bracing for hovering well being care prices, the President is leaving the nation," he continued.

Schumer added: "America is shut down and the President is skipping city."

The senator mentioned Democrats have sought to satisfy with Trump, however that the president is "abandoning" his tasks.

"Democrats have requested, repeatedly, for President Trump to satisfy with us to barter a bipartisan deal that will handle the healthcare disaster, and discover a path ahead to reopen the federal government. However as a substitute of doing his job, President Trump is abandoning it," Schumer mentioned.

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Schumer additionally known as on GOP lawmakers in Congress to work throughout the aisle to succeed in a deal to finish the shutdown.

"With the President in a foreign country, the accountability falls squarely on Congressional Republicans to behave — to come back to the desk, to do their jobs, and to ship an settlement that reopens the federal government and protects Individuals from one other well being care catastrophe," he mentioned.

"Individuals deserve a authorities that works as laborious as they do— not a frontrunner that flies away from accountability on the time they want one most," the highest Senate Democrat added.

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Whereas in Asia, Trump is anticipated to satisfy with regional allies about commerce, together with the commerce conflict with China, in addition to Beijing's tightening of export controls on rare-earth minerals important for sure applied sciences.