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Donald Trump fired shots at the opposition party on Twitter over the partial government shutdown, a day after freezing pay for 2.1 million federal workers. The US president issued an executive order blocking the pay rise due to automatically come into effect in January. As the disruption in federal services and public employees’ pay appeared set to continue into the new year, there were no signs of any substantive negotiation between the blame-trading parties. Donald Trump at a hanger rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Wednesday, December 26 (Picture: AP) Mr Trump remains cooped up in the White House after cancelling a vacation to his private Florida club amid the shutdown. Groups representing federal employees said Trump’s freeze comes as added insult with some 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay as the shutdown looks set to continue into the new year. President of the National Treasury Employees Union Tony Reardon said: ‘This is just pouring salt into the wound. ‘It is shocking that federal employees are taking yet another financial hit. ‘As if missed paychecks and working without pay were not enough, now they have been told that they don’t even deserve a modest pay increase.’ Trump was accused of ‘reaching new lows’ after blaming the opposition party for the deaths of two Guatemalan children who crossed into the US illegally (Picture: Getty) Roughly one-fourth of the federal government is not funded at the moment, while the president held out for billions in federal funds for the border wall between the US and Mexico, which Democrats have said they were intent on blocking. He tweeted on Saturday that he was ‘in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security’. Donald Trump freezes pay for 2,100,000 federal workers then blames shutdown on Democrats But there has been little direct contact between the sides during the stalemate, and Mr Trump did not ask Republicans, who hold a monopoly on power in Washington for another five days, to keep Congress in session. As he called for Democrats to negotiate on the wall, the president brushed off criticism that his administration bore any responsibility for the recent deaths of two migrant children in Border Patrol custody. He was accused of ‘reaching new lows’ after blaming the opposition party for the deaths of the two Guatemalan children, claiming they were ‘strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally’. The president held out for billions in federal funds for the border wall between the US and Mexico, which Democrats have said they were intent on blocking (Picture: AFP/Getty) His comments on Twitter came as his Homeland Security secretary met with medical professionals and ordered policy changes meant to better protect children detained at the border. Mr Trump earlier had upped the brinkmanship by threatening anew to close the border with Mexico to press Congress to cave to his demand for money to pay for a wall. Democrats are vowing to pass legislation restoring the government as soon as they take control of the House on Thursday, but that will not accomplish anything unless Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate go along with it. Mr Trump has remained out of the public eye since returning to the White House early Thursday from a 29-hour visit to US troops in Iraq, instead taking to Twitter to attack Democrats. He also moved to defend himself from criticism that he couldn’t deliver on the wall while the Republicans controlled both the House and Senate. Trump tweeted: ‘For those that naively ask why didn’t the Republicans get approval to build the Wall over the last year, it is because IN THE SENATE WE NEED 10 DEMOCRAT VOTES, and they will gives us “NONE” for Border Security! ‘Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown.’ Got a story for Metro.co.uk? If you have a story for our news team, email us at webnews@metro.co.uk. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
