‘Wow!’ Trump Advisor Surprises Fox Host By Threatening Democrats With ‘Extreme Measures’ If Gov Doesn’t Reopen

Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett surprised Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany on Saturday by threatening Democrats with “extreme measures” if the current government shutdown does not end in a matter of days.

Hassett joined McEnany on Saturday in America and at one point suggested there would be “extreme measures” potentially taken by President Donald Trump and Republicans if the government shutdown does not end by next week. Republicans and Democrats are at a standstill on passing a continuing resolution to fund the government as Democrats have demanded an extension on Affordable Care Act subsidies be included.

While discussing the No Kings rallies against the administration on Saturday, Hassett hit Democrats with a deadline.

“If they don’t open the government next week, I really don’t know how long it’s going to take, maybe the republicans going to have to take extreme measures,” he said.

“Wow. What would that look like?” McEnany asked.

Hassett explained Trump could pick Democrats “favorite” programs and simply end them forever.

He said:

Well, on our side, the president has said that legally, if they shut the government down, then we don’t have the money to do stuff, so we can stop it forever. And we can stop virtually anything that we want, other than defense and so on, and national security matters. The president can pick the Democrats’ favorite things and stop them forever, legally. And he’s yet to do that, he’s hoping for an amicable solution, hoping that the Democrats open up the government maybe next week. And then if they’ve got a policy dispute with us on something, then that’s what Congress is for. We’ll talk to them about whatever they want to talk about, and we’ll see how it goes. But to shut the government down, really, this is the third time that they’ve done it since President Trump’s been in office, and so if you extract from COVID, they pretty much shut the governor down every time he’s president as much as they can. And it just shows how unpatriotic they are just ignoring their constitutional duty to be a moderating influence in America. You know, shame on Chuck Schumer for that.

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