The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in comments to reporters after a closed-door caucus lunch that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries “reached out to the president today and urged him to sit down and negotiate with us to resolve the health care crisis, address it and end the government shutdown.”
Schumer added that he and Jeffries told the White House they were willing to meet “any time, any place” before Trump leaves the country Friday for a weeklong trip to Asian countries.
The two leaders…
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