"I don’t see it at all. I think this country is going to boom," Trump said. "But as I said, I can do it the easy way or the hard way. The hard way to do it is exactly what I'm doing. But the results are going to be 20 times greater." "Remember: Trump is always right," he added.

The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government.