BY MAX GREENWOOD - 11/28/17 08:58 PM EST

President Trump hit Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday, suggesting that they are holding defense funding "hostage" despite continued threats posed by North Korea's ongoing missile tests.

"North Korea missile launch, it's more important than ever to fund our gov't & military! Dems shouldn't hold troop funding hostage for amnesty & illegal immigration," Trump wrote on Twitter. "I ran on stopping illegal immigration and won big. They can't now threaten a shutdown to get their demands."


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After North Korea missile launch, it's more important than ever to fund our gov't & military! Dems shouldn't hold troop funding hostage for amnesty & illegal immigration. I ran on stopping illegal immigration and won big. They can't now threaten a shutdown to get their demands.
5:45 PM - Nov 28, 2017



Trump's tweet came as the chances of a government shutdown appeared more likely after Trump clashed with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) over a year-end deal to fund the government.

Pelosi and Schumer backed out of a scheduled meeting with Trump on Tuesday, after the president tweeted that he saw no path forward on a deal to avert a government shutdown in December.

Pelosi and Schumer have said that they will not support a year-end funding measure unless it includes protections for young undocumented immigrants, who are at risk of deportation following Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Trump's tweet also came on the heels of North Korea's latest missile test – its first in more than two months. That rocket, believed by U.S. officials to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), flew further than any other North Korean rocket to date.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...er-immigration