Democrats blink first in shutdown row

Donald Trump was swift to claim victory this week as the US government got back to work.

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Schumer: too accommodating, but voters will have forgotten come polling day
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The Democrats and Republicans in Washington are still bickering over who deserves the blame for the three-day government shutdown that ended last Monday. The Democrats blinked first. They had demanded an explicit pledge to protect the 690,000 young, undocumented migrants who were granted temporary legal status under Barack Obama's 2012 Deferred action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) programme.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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