Trumps shutdown threat may not be real, but it could cause a potentially market-shaking showdown if he does follow through on it.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has already said he expects the Republican-led Congress to largely ignore the proposal.

During the campaign, Donald Trump promised not to cut Medicaid. It looks like he's breaking that vow.

In a spending bill agreed upon this morning, Congress tossed out most of President Trump's priorities, including money for a border wall.

'The Democrats want to shut government if we dont bail out Puerto Rico and give billions to their insurance companies for OCare failure,' Trump wrote on Twitter.

After the CBO report estimated 24 million Americans would lose insurance, several groups and thought leaders continued to voice their disapproval of the GOP Affordable Care Act replacement proposal.

John Boehner will resign from Congress at the end of October, lawmakers said.

In the 52-46 vote Friday, Senate Republicans, who control the chamber for the first time in eight years, persuaded enough of their members to back a compromise fiscal blueprint to avoid the embarrassment of a failed vote.