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            Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., talks with the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mitch McConnell declared Sunday there won’t be a government
            shutdown this week over the question of protecting immigrants.
                                                                                                                                    (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
            McConnell Says No Government Shutdown This Week



            By HOPE YEN                  won’t  be  a  government  addressed next year.            over the weekend to avert  ment  that  would  give  the
            Associated Press             shutdown  this  week  over  “There’s not going to be a  a  shutdown  and  keep  the  Pentagon and government
            WASHINGTON  (AP)  —  Test-   the  question  of  protect-  government  shutdown.  It’s  government open through  agencies  significant  relief
            ing  the  resolve  of  Demo-  ing   immigrants   brought  just not going to happen,”  Dec. 22.                      from  a  pending  budget
            crats,   Senate    Majority  to  the  country  illegally  as  said McConnell, R-Ky.    The  measure  would  buy  freeze.
            Leader  Mitch  McConnell  children, describing it as a  House  GOP  leaders  un-       time for bipartisan talks on
            declared  Sunday  there  “non-emergency”  to  be  veiled  a  short-term  plan  a  bigger  budget  agree-                    Continued on Page 3

               Senate Democrats Stand United Against GOP Tax Bill



               By MATTHEW DALY                               One and even threats from Trump during cam-   and  others  were  widely  expected  to  break
               Associated Press                              paign  stops  in  their  states  were  not  enough  with their party and side with the Republican
               WASHINGTON  (AP)  —  Rarely  unified,  Senate  to sway Democrats who rejected the nearly  president.
               Democrats  stood  together  in  opposing  the  $1.5 trillion tax bill early Saturday. Lawmakers  But  on  Trump’s  top  two  legislative  priorities
               GOP revamp of the tax code despite the tra-   voting against the bill included 10 vulnerable  —  taxes  and  dismantling  former  President
               ditional  popularity  of  tax  cuts  and  warnings  Democrats from states Trump won last year,  Barack  Obama’s  health  care  law  —  Demo-
               from  President  Donald  Trump  and  Repub-   some handily.                                 crats  unanimously  rebuffed  the  GOP  presi-
               licans  about  the  political  cost  in  next  year’s  When Trump took office 10 months ago, mod-  dent despite his derision.
               midterm elections.                            erate  Democrats  such  as  Joe  Manchin  of
               White  House  dinners,  trips  aboard  Air  Force  West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota                      Continued on Page 3
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