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12:45 AM ET, January 21, 2018

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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Welcome to Trump's whatever shutdown  —  Trump has spent a year upending the rules of being president, and so far he's approaching the congressional spending crisis as another episode that will work itself out.  —  Little of the congressional drama that precipitated the weekend's government shutdown …
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Oliver Willis / Shareblue Media:
Watch Mitch McConnell kill effort to protect military pay as GOP pushed for shutdown  —  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would not allow military pay to be left unmolested by the Republican Party's decision to shut down the federal government.  Once again, Donald Trump …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Washington Press
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
After Vowing to Fix Washington, Trump Is Mired in a Familiar Crisis
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump lashes out as #TrumpShutdown trends worldwide on inauguration anniversary
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and Roll Call
Associated Press:
The Latest: Shutdown on Trump anniversary frustrates him
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
New York Times:
Patrick Meehan, Congressman Combating Harassment, Settled His Own Misconduct Case  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP rep loses spot on Ethics Committee over sexual harassment settlement
Discussion: Washington Press
Washington Post:
‘Negotiating with Jell-O’: How Trump's shifting positions fueled the rush to a shutdown … In a remarkable, televised 55-minute meeting with about two dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers earlier this month, President Trump twice proclaimed that any immigration deal would need to be …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: Negotiating with Trump ‘like negotiating with Jell-O’
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Congressional leaders refuse to budge on shutdown's first day, but negotiations continue
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump gala at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night again rents a ballroom from Trump
Discussion: CNN, thecut, Balloon Juice and Mediaite
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Gutiérrez ready to give in on wall  —  Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said Saturday that he's ready to give President Trump  —  his signature border wall if the Republicans will agree to new legal protections for “Dreamers.”  —  Furthermore, he said he'd help with the construction.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   New Trump Ad Calls Dems ‘Complicit’ In Murders By Undocumented Immigrants
Wall Street Journal:
Charles Is in Charge  —  Schumer previews life for Trump if Democrats retake Congress.
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Women's March 2018: Thousands of Protesters Take to the Streets  —  A year after millions of people turned out for the Women's March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump's inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States …
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NBC Chicago:   300K People Joined Women's March in Chicago: Organizers
Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
They Were Bad.  He May Be Worse.  —  Historians have long looked to a few key criteria in evaluating the beginning of a president's administration.  First and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation's chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Iraq War vet Tammy Duckworth nails Trump: I will not be lectured by a draft dodger  —  “I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops ... in danger.”  —  Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) …
Discussion: Mediaite
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
DEUTSCHE BANK WILLING TO REPORT JARED KUSHNER'S ‘SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTIONS’ TO ROBERT MUELLER: REPORT  —  A German bank reportedly has evidence of “suspicious transactions” related to Jared Kushner's family accounts and is willing to hand the information over to Russia probe special counsel Robert Mueller.
Discussion: Washington Press
CNN:
You'll get your mail, but not your passports.  Here's what's affected by the shutdown  —  (CNN)In the final moments leading up to Friday's midnight deadline, Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services.
Discussion: WNEP-TV, KTLA, NBC News and WREG-TV
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Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Trump wants a kinder, gentler, shutdown
Discussion: Raw Story, AOL and NBC News
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
WH releases photos of Trump working through shutdown  —  The White House on Saturday released photos of President Trump  —  working on the first day of the government shutdown and the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.  —  One photo shows the president walking through a hallway wearing a white …
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Minnesota woman strikes St. Kate's  —  St. Catherine University (a/k/a St. Kate's, formerly St. Catherine College) sits on a leafy 110-acre campus in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul.  It is located a few blocks down the street from my high school alma mater and within shouting distance …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Star Tribune
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Tad Vezner / Twin Cities:
'You guys are lucky I don't know how to build a bomb,' St. Kate's arson suspect allegedly said
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alexis Simendinger / The Hill:
Meadows: House majority loss wouldn't ‘change a whole lot’  —  (R-N.C.) Thursday in the midst of the GOP's hunt for a spending deal that could attract enough votes in the House to shift the risk of a shutdown to Democrats in the Senate.  —  The president didn't realize he reached Meadows …
Washington Post:
Amid Trump's inaugural festivities, members of Russia's elite anticipated a thaw between Moscow and Washington … In the days before Donald Trump's inauguration, a wealthy Russian pharmaceutical executive named Alexey Repik arrived in Washington, expressing excitement about the new administration.
 
 
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Washington Post:
Poll finds public optimistic about the economy, critical of Trump, split on issues
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
In Pennsylvania, women who voted for Trump voice support after first year
Discussion: Breitbart, Townhall.com and IJR
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
The Other Women's March on Washington
Associated Press:
Shutdown forces closure of Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
The National Rifle Association's Telegenic Warrior
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Missouri governor: ‘no blackmail,’ ‘no violence’ in affair
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Nicolle Wallace's Road From the White House to 30 Rock
Annie Karni / Politico:
Who's in and who's out as the West Wing grapples with shutdown
Discussion: Breitbart and Talking Points Memo