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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, walks to speak to the media outside the Capitol after meeting with President Donald Trump, Friday, Jan. 19,
2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
With Shutdown Looming at Press Time:

Emboldened Democrats Take Page from the Hard Right

By JULIE PACE tion year, Democrats are calculat- ing Obama-era budget battles. tation — because he said it didn’t
AP Washington Bureau Chief ing the bigger risk would be missing Those showdowns were prompted include enough funding for his
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressio- the moment to challenge a deeply by conservatives who were swept long-promised border wall.
nal Democrats are taking a page unpopular president and deflating into Congress during the tea party As the hours ticked down to Fri-
from the playbook of President the energy that could drive liberal wave and who refused to compro- day’s midnight deadline, the White
Donald Trump and hard-line con- voters to the polls in November. mise on the fiscal issues that moti- House and Republican lawmakers
servatives: Fight for your base and “No one wants to conduct them- vated their voters. argued that Democrats were play-
don’t blink. selves in a way that you are running As a candidate and as president, ing politics and holding govern-
In forcing a showdown over im- scared and being a milquetoast Trump has frequently employed ment funding hostage over an un-
migration — and risking a possible moderate in a way that dampens similar tactics to the tea party, pre- related issue.
government shutdown — Demo- the enthusiasm,” said Brian Fallon, ferring to satisfy his core supporters It’s the same charge Democrats
crats have embraced a confronta- a former aide to Senate Minor- rather than seek positions backed made against Republicans in 2013,
tional, rule-breaking strategy they ity Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., by a broader swath of Americans. when the GOP shut down the gov-
once blasted as irresponsible when and 2016 Democratic presidential Last week, he rejected a compro- ernment for 16 days in a bid to re-
practiced by the other party. But nominee Hillary Clinton. mise spending bill that addressed peal President Barack Obama’s
the Trump-era appears to come It’s a strategy shift for Democrats, Democrats’ top demand — pro- health care law.
with new rules for both sides. Rath- who negotiated repeatedly with tection for hundreds of thousands
er than playing it safe in an elec- Republicans during the punish- of young immigrants facing depor- Continued on Page 3