Head Start programs for preschoolers nationwide are scrambling for federal funds. The federal agency tasked with overseeing the US nuclear stockpile has begun furloughing its 1,400 employees. Thousands more federal workers are going without pay cheques.
But as President Donald Trump welcomed Republican senators for lunch in the newly renovated Rose Garden Club -- with the boom-boom of construction underway on the new White House ballroom -- he portrayed a different vision of America as a unified GOP refuses to yield to Democratic demands for health care funds, and the government shutdown drags on.
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"We have the hottest country anywhere in the world, which tells you about leadership," Trump said in opening remarks, extolling the renovations underway as senators took their seats in the newly paved-over garden turned patio.
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