WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government had shut down, and Donald Trump was calling on Democrats and Republicans to work together to get out of the mess.
“You have to get people in a room, and you have to just make deals for the good of the country,” Trump remarked.
The year was 2013, and Trump was then a business mogul who had yet to enter politics. Now that he is president, Trump and his fellow Republicans are taking a strikingly different posture, refusing to negotiate with Democrats in a shutdown that the GOP say the minority party instigated.
Just last year, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York was criticizing
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