US president Donald Trump has threatened to shut down Congress so he could fill vacancies in his administration without Senate confirmation, saying he was frustrated lawmakers were not in Washington to vote on his nominees for federal judgeships and other government positions. No US president has ever used the authority, included in the Constitution, to adjourn both chambers of Congress. Trump also used the briefing to continue his attack on the World Health Organisation but this time also targeted the World Trade Organisation’s practice of favouring developing nations over developed ones when it comes to trade terms. Trump claimed that ‘as far as I'm concerned’ the US is ‘a developing nation, too’



