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Thursday, January 18, 2018

News Alert: Trump baffles GOP with tweet scrambling shutdown talks

 
 
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Trump baffles GOP with tweet scrambling shutdown talks
President Trump undermined his own party’s plan to avert a looming government shutdown on Thursday after tweeting that a key Democratic bargaining chip shouldn’t be attached to the funding package.

The 17-word tweet threw Capitol Hill into a state of confusion ahead of what is already expected to be a tight vote in the House Thursday night. Republicans on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue were trying to decipher what exactly the president meant by declaring a popular children’s health-care program should be part of a “long term solution” as opposed to a “30 Day, or short term, extension.”
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