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How Trump and Schumer Came Close to a Deal Over Cheeseburgers — WASHINGTON — President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the top Democrat in the Senate, came close to an agreement to avert a government shutdown over lunch on Friday. But their consensus broke down later …
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Trump Whines: Shutdown Fight Could Make Me Miss ‘My Party’ — You would tweet too if it happened to you. — LACHLAN MARKAY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG1.19.18 10:25 PM ET — On the eve of a possible government shutdown, President Donald Trump privately vented frustrations that the political impasse …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Congress returns to work as lawmakers press to keep shutdown short-lived … Congress prepared to return to work Saturday as negotiators pressed for a budget deal to keep a government shutdown that began at midnight short-lived. — Agencies shut down for the first time in more than four years late Friday …
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New York Times:
How Every Senator Voted on the Government Shutdown — Senate Democrats appeared to have blocked a spending bill on Friday night that would have prevented a government shutdown. The procedural motion to advance the bill needs 60 votes to pass.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Who's in and who's out as the West Wing grapples with shutdown — The press wranglers have gone home. The in-house White House makeup artist isn't expecting to report to work on Monday. Assistants to senior White House staffers are getting an unexpected, unpaid vacation from work.
Bloomberg:
Shutdown Starts Amid Blame Game as Trump Marks First Year — Government funding ended at midnight Friday without a deal — Senate, House hold rare Saturday sessions to seek agreement — The U.S. government began a partial shutdown on Saturday as finger-pointing intensified on both sides …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump plans gala at Mar-a-Lago tonight, again renting a ballroom from himself — PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump's posh Mar-a-Lago Club is set to host a high-priced gala on Saturday night intended to celebrate Trump's first year in office and raise money for his reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Shutdown? It Could Be Forgotten in a Trumpian Flash — WASHINGTON — In the fall of 2013, Republican hard-liners engineered a 16-day shutdown of the federal government, implausibly insisting that President Barack Obama acquiesce to their demand that the Affordable Care Act be stripped of all funding.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
The government has officially shut down
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CNN:
CNN poll: DACA not worth a shutdown, except to Democrats
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Inside the frantic 24 hours that led to a shutdown
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CNN:
Government shuts down as lawmakers still searching for a deal
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
In spending fight, Republicans embrace Trump's hard-line stand on immigration
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New York Times:
Patrick Meehan, Congressman Combating Harassment, Settled His Own Misconduct Case — WASHINGTON — Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle …
QJurecic / Lawfare:
Devin Nunes's Mystery Memo: Repeating the Cycle of Distraction — Representative Devin Nunes / Center for Strategic and International Studies — Forget the Steele dossier. There's a hot new sub rosa document in Washington: a classified four-page memo prepared by House intelligence …
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Jake Pearson / Associated Press:
Tabloid held porn star's 2011 interview after Trump threat — NEW YORK (AP) — A tabloid magazine held back from publishing an adult film star's 2011 account of an alleged affair with Donald Trump after the future president's personal lawyer threatened to sue, four former employees of the tabloid's publisher told The Associated Press.
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Trump's love of tabloid gossip complicates his denial of affair allegations with Stormy Daniels
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Mollie Ziegler Hemingway / Washington Post:
I wasn't a Trump supporter. I am now. — This may seem like an odd moment for saying so, but a year into the presidency of Donald Trump, I'm elated. — Trump was not my first or even second choice for president, but a full two years ago I predicted he would win.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump lashes out as #TrumpShutdown trends worldwide on inauguration anniversary — Trump launched a hashtag war on Saturday morning. Things did not go as planned. — As Republicans readied to shut down the government Friday night, Donald Trump and his allies were busy trying to pin …
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New Yorker:
Jared Kushner Is China's Trump Card — How the President's son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing's primary point of interest. — In early 2017, shortly after Jared Kushner moved into his new office in the West Wing of the White House, he began receiving guests.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast Latest Articles:
President Trump Is Having an Affair ‘Right Now,’ Michael Wolff Tells Bill Maher … The last time we saw Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time, he was defending his friend Al Franken and condemning his ideological enemy Roy Moore. Three months later, neither man is serving in the U.S. Senate …
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Twitter found more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts that actively shared election-related material — and Trump interacted with them hundreds of times — Twitter says it found more Russia-linked accounts that shared US election-related material during the 2016 race for the White House.
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Unhinged Fox host tries to distract from Trump's shutdown by stalking Hillary Clinton — With the threat of a government shutdown looming at midnight on Friday, Donald Trump has created a national crisis completely out of thin air in his determination to block legal status for young immigrants …
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Chicago Tribune:
More than 250,000 descend on downtown for second Women's March in Chicago: organizers — Sandra Whitmore attended her first protest in 1968. Then 30, she joined others in San Francisco to publicly burn their bras, she said. — The experience was so intoxicating, Whitmore said …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Arpaio files appeal to have criminal conviction removed — Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has filed to have a contempt of court conviction cleared as he officially kicks off his bid to be Arizona's next senator. — Local Arizona news station KTAR reported Friday that Arpaio …
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP senator amid looming shutdown: Country ‘being run by idiots’ … (R-La.) blasted Congress on Friday as a government funding deadline approached, slamming the government as being “run by idiots.” — “Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots,” …
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Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Nicolle Wallace's Road From the White House to 30 Rock — How a former aide to George W. Bush and campaign strategist for John McCain's 2008 presidential run has became a somewhat unlikely TV star at MSNBC. — In the basement of the Mexican restaurant Anejo TriBeCa last December …
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