So the President, the House, and then the Republican leadership launched this plan to shut down the government. They succeeded. They rejected at least three times the Democratic effort to have a bipartisan proposal to keep the government open or after they shut it down--the Trump shutdown--to reopen it. Yet, even as you put forward this proposal, at this moment, they are still determined to keep the government shut down.
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