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  1. McConnell “has been fantastic,” Trump says. “He has been really great.”

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    HUD delays release of $16 billion in storm funds, much of it for Puerto Rico, via

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    Lindsey Graham finds himself on the margins of shutdown negotiations

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    'It sucks being a political pawn.' Government shutdown squeezes KC's furloughed federal workforce.

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    Beloved Husky is fired from police job when his human is caught in small-town feud

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  7. If he had been asked to go, obviously he would’ve gone, of absence for Trump wall remarks in the Rose Garden. Said he and Thune had already left WH when Trump took to rose garden

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    McCarthy/Scalise in Rose Garden w/Trump. McConnell came back to the Capitol

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  10. . calls it “encouraging” in that there would b a working group of people who know their stuff who could punt it back up to leadership.

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  11. Returning from WH, describes a “spirited” discussion. Says Trump agreed to have his “top people” to meet w congressional leaders’ staff over the weekend - and recommend some fix.

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    Schumer says Trump expressed willingness to keep the government shut for “months or even years.”

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    Pelosi and Chuck are here now. She said they just completed a “lengthy” and sometimes “contentious” meeting with Trump

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  14. . says he's been getting calls urging him to run regardless of Gov. Bevin's plans, but he's not. "I'm a middle class guy, I have every disadvantage in the world running against a wealthy incumbent governor in a primary."

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    “I’m damned proud of that undefeated record,” says as he prepares to leave office 24-0

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    If you're following the Pat Roberts retirement news, follow and , reporters who know Roberts better than anybody.

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    Subtle ! If Bevin doesn’t file, Comer said he’d have a “significant interest in the race.” “I’m getting a lot of calls....

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  18. The government shutdown will now likely last until at least next Tuesday ...

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  19. "A solution will need to be palatable to House Democrats and Senate Republicans alike," says Friday on the Senate floor. Dismisses House bills - modeled after Senate bills - as “time wasting act of political posturing” that Trump has threatened to veto.

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  20. One hometown newspaper w a word for the and the government : "Override." ed board says "McConnell has to know the Trump presidency would eventually force a choice upon him. Now would be a good time to choose to lead."

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