Shutdown: Deal ‘close’Shortly before Trump appeared before cameras, the White House formally embraced the bipartisan efforts to pass a revised multiagency funding measure. A White House official stressed that Trump was strongly opposed to a second shutdown in just a few months. … It’s just like, literally, so easy to do,” Trump said, not masking his frustration with Powell, whom he nominated as Fed chair in 2017. “With a proper intelligent person at the Fed, that person will be able to work with us to get interest rates down,” Trump said. … The best thing that can happen for both groups of people is lower interest rates.”