5 days in, no end in sight for partial government shutdown
by Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2018
2 minutes
WASHINGTON - Five days after about one-fourth of the federal government was shut down in a funding dispute, affecting about 800,000 federal workers, no solution appeared in sight Wednesday.
President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to a U.S. airbase in Iraq after days of raging at Democrats for not agreeing to his demand for $5 billion as a down payment for his long-promised border wall. Democrats
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