President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration plans to use the ongoing government shutdown to permanently cut government programs popular with Democrats , his latest threat amid the funding stalemate.

"We're only cutting Democrat programs," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

It was not immediately clear which programs Trump had in mind, but he specified that they were "very popular Democrat programs that aren't popular with Republicans, frankly."

"They wanted to do this," Trump said, doubling down on blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

They will "get a little taste of their own medicine," he added.

The president's threat to target Democratic priorities came one week after he initially floated the idea of inflicting pain on his political oppone

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