Conway Says Trump No Longer Owns the Shutdown

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway argued that President Trump “no longer bears responsibility for the shutdown that’s resulted in the closure of approximately a quarter of the federal government, impacting 800,000 federal workers,” ABC News reports.

Said Conway: “He doesn’t own the shutdown any longer.”

“She argued that because the House of Representatives passed a package last month that included the president’s requested $5.6 billion in funding, the buck now passes to the Senate. That measure expired with the end of the 115th Congress earlier Thursday.”