- Schumer: ‘To open the government, abandon the wall’
- Republican: Quick end to shutdown was ‘not probable
- Robert Reich: the US is at the edge of the economic precipice
America woke to day two of its third government shutdown in a year with hundreds of thousands of federal employees no closer to being paid over Christmas, national parks closed and Donald Trump obdurately refusing to accept the blame for an event he previously declared he would be “proud” to cause.
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