As the Shutdown Loomed, Trump Reached Out to Schumer

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/19/2018 - 11:05pm |

By Michael D. Shear & Maggie Haberman @ NYTimes.com, Jan.

[....] Once again, Mr. Trump’s impulses led him to ignore political protocols and his own Republican allies, like Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, who had groused in recent days that the Senate would consider an immigration bill “as soon as we figure out what he is for.” [....]

In classic Trump style, the president on Friday made anxious conservatives hold their breath for almost 90 minutes as the possibility of a Trump-Schumer deal dangled in the Washington wind. In a later Twitter post, Mr. Trump declared it an “excellent preliminary meeting” and said he was making progress with Mr. Schumer and Republican leaders [.....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/politics/trump-government-shutdown.html