How the White House navigated the government shutdown
by Sarah Westwood | Jan 22, 2018, 5:15 PM
As congressional Republicans celebrated the looming passage of a short-term spending bill that would reopen the government, White House officials began to take a victory lap on the conclusion of a shutdown they had worked to pin entirely on Senate Democrats’ shoulders.
President Trump spent the weekend using his Twitter account to hammer Senate Democrats over their refusal on Friday to vote for a continuing resolution that would have averted the three-day partial government shutdown. But the president seemed to leave much of the heavy lifting that led to an agreement on Monday to congressional leaders and his representatives on Capitol Hill, paving the way for an immigration deal that could ultimately fall short of what Trump has requested.
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