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What Winter Break? Trump Tweet Throws Shutdown Negotiations Into Chaos

By John T. Bennett
Posted November 29, 2017 at 1:28am

By John T. Bennett and D.A. Banks

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White House correspondent John T. Bennett says the Twitter diss of Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Charles E. Schumer ahead of a crucial meeting to avert a potential government shutdown shows the two sides of President Donald Trump — the street fighter versus the charmer-in-chief.

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