A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 24, 2019.
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By the end of the day, Trump still had the loudest megaphone in Washington. He just didn’t have a workable plan, a united party, or much of the country with him.
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The Senate rejected both Trump’s wall-linked plan and a Democratic reopening bill, and six Republicans broke with him on the wall fight. The day made clear that Trump’s shutdown strategy was sliding from hardball into humiliation.