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Trump Meets with GOP Senators, Rips Paul over Shutdown
Nearly every Republican senator joined President Trump to demonstrate party unity as the government shutdown entered its fourth week with half of Americans blaming Republicans.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump invited nearly every Republican senator to a Rose Garden Club lunch at the White House as the government shutdown entered its fourth week.
- Republicans say they will not negotiate until the government reopens, while Senate Democrats are blocking the House-passed continuing resolution until Affordable Care Act subsidies are extended.
- The lunch featured cheeseburgers, fries and 'Rose Garden chocolates' under yellow umbrellas, with all but Rand Paul of Kentucky attending and receiving Trump caps and medallions.
- Hundreds of thousands of federal employees, including thousands of air traffic controllers, are furloughed or unpaid, while Head Start and WIC serving more than 40 million Americans face funding shortfalls.
- Poll numbers and looming funding deadlines are sharpening pressure as a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Monday shows half of Americans blame congressional Republicans and lawmakers debate stopgap options ahead of the Nov. 21 deadline.
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President Donald Trump left viewers baffled and uneasy on Tuesday after going off-script at a White House lunch, randomly assigning one of his top officials a strange nickname and then following it up with an even stranger question. The strange moment unfolded during a lunch for Republican lawmakers in the recently repaved Rose Garden, where Trump delivered a long-winded speech blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown, now entering …
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