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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the assistant Democratic leader, is surrounded by reporters asking about the possibility of a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Congress and President Donald Trump continue to bicker over his demand that lawmakers fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Shutdown threat down as Trump softens wall stance

by Lisa Mascaro Associated Press, Matthew Daly Associated Press, and Catherine Lucey Associated PressDecember 18, 2018

In this Dec. 11, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meets with Democratic leaders the Oval Office in Washington. Trump said last week he would be "proud" to have a shutdown to get Congress to approve a 5 billion down payment to fulfill his campaign promise to build a border wall. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump meets with team as clock ticks to partial shutdown

by Lisa Mascaro Associated Press, Matthew Daly Associated Press, and Catherine Lucey Associated PressDecember 17, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during a meeting with Democratic leadership in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump, Dems dig in for fight over border-wall funding

by Catherine Lucey Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressDecember 12, 2018

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California meets with reporters at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday.

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Pelosi takes hard line on Trump’s wall ahead of meeting

by Matthew Daly Associated PressDecember 6, 2018

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2008 file photo, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., with wife Cindy alongside, addresses supporters on election night in Nashua, N.H. McCain's family says the Arizona senator has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

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McCain stops cancer treatment as remarkable life nears end

by Matthew Daly Associated PressAugust 24, 2018

FILE - In this May 10, 2013, file photo, Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, shows a plastic handgun made on a 3D-printer at his home in Austin, Texas. Eight states filed suit Monday, July 30, 2018, against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals and threaten public safety. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

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Judge blocks release of blueprints for 3D-printed guns

by Martha Bellisle Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressJuly 31, 2018

This Aug. 1, 2007, file photo, shows construction crews are seen as they work on early stages of a new mixed oxide fuel, or MOX fabrication facility at the Savannah River nuclear complex near Aiken, S.C. The agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile would essentially be removed from direct oversight under a defense policy bill being negotiated in Congress. The little-noticed provision is opposed by the Trump administration and senior lawmakers from both parties.

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Defense bill would curb Cabinet control of nuclear agency

by Matthew Daly Associated PressJuly 22, 2018

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., criticizes President Donald Trump's performance during his side-by-side news conference with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 16, 2018. Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' conclusions that Moscow was to blame for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election to Trump's benefit. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Wave of condemnation hits Trump after summit with Putin

by Lisa Mascaro Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressJuly 16, 2018

FILE - In this May 3, 2018, file photo Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Washington. Sessions is citing the Bible in defending the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents from the children after they enter the U.S. illegally. Sessions was responding to criticism from the archbishop of Galveston-Houston. Cardinal Daniel DiNardio had told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops separating babies from their mothers was immoral. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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GOP lawmakers decry family separations as White House defends policy

by Matthew Daly Associated Press, Kevin Freking Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressJune 14, 2018

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday.

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GOP leaders move slowly on tighter gun laws

by Lisa Mascaro Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressFebruary 27, 2018