DC pols won’t budge

A showdown over President Trump’s vow to shut down the government looked inevitable Wednesday, as GOP senators said Trump was not bluffing and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer bluntly told the president he won’t get the money he wants for his border wall.

“I think we’re going to have a shutdown,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said, a day after Trump unexpectedly issued the warning during a public Oval Office clash with Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who is likely to become House speaker in January.

“For two reasons. Number one, President Trump has not looked to me like he was bluffing or is bluffing. And number two, I don’t think Speaker Pelosi is going to agree to anything because she’s worried about her speakership,” the Louisiana senator told CNN.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Trump to hold his ground.

“He needs to dig in and get the very Democrats who voted for $25 billion to give him [another] $5 [billion for the wall] because we need the money now more than ever,” he told Fox News, referring to a February deal that failed to get through the Senate.

Schumer, meanwhile, teed off on Trump and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, charging that the Trump lives in a “cocoon of his own mistruth” and that McConnell needs to “help pull the president back from the brink” of a shutdown.

“Leader McConnell says he doesn’t want a shutdown, but he refuses to engage with the president to tell him what is transparently obvious to everyone else: There will be no additional money for the wall,” Schumer said.

Trump wants $5 billion for the wall in 2019 while Democrats offered two options — one for $ 1.3 billion and the other for $1.6 billion — as the Dec. 21 deadline to pass a spending bill nears.