The partial shutdown of the federal government entered its third week on Sunday as thousands of government employees remain furloughed and Congress appears no closer…
The partial shutdown of the federal government entered its third week on Sunday as thousands of government employees remain furloughed and Congress appears no closer to reaching a deal with the president to approve funding.
Members of the White House and new Democratic House majority will offer differing views on the shutdown on Sunday’s talk show circuit following another week of meetings between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y.) and their congressional Republican colleagues.
Schumer emerged from the most recent meeting between Trump and the Democrats on Friday with news that the president threatened a shutdown lasting months or even years, as the White House remains unwilling to accept a funding plan that does not include money for Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.
