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Trump tried to end the shutdown by trading a temporary DACA and TPS extension for wall money, but Democrats said the package was a mashup of previously rejected ideas. The move looked less like a breakthrough than a belated admission that the White House had spent weeks insisting there was no room to bargain before suddenly bargaining anyway.
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Trump tried to end the shutdown by trading a temporary DACA and TPS extension for wall money, but Democrats said the package was a mashup of previously rejected ideas. The move looked less like a breakthrough than a belated admission that the White House had spent weeks insisting there was no room to bargain before suddenly bargaining anyway.
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Trump tried to end the shutdown by trading a temporary DACA and TPS extension for wall money, but Democrats said the package was a mashup of previously rejected ideas. The move looked less like a breakthrough than a belated admission that the White House had spent weeks insisting there was no room to bargain before suddenly bargaining anyway.
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