OLYMPIA, Wash. - Senator Patty Murray released a statement ahead of a potential government shutdown less than a week away.

"America deserves so much better than a petty wannabe tyrant," Murray said. "President Trump will try to abuse a shutdown—just like he's trampled our laws for months—but that doesn't mean he gets whatever he wants as a result."

The statement comes after news that the Trump administration is directing agencies to prepare mass firings of federal workers if the shutdown goes into effect.

"This is nothing new: Donald Trump has spent the better part of a year chaotically and indiscriminately firing—and then rehiring—essential government workers."

Murray is one of the highest-ranking democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee responsible for allocating federal fund

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