Today’s notice: Schrödinger’s health care talks. Guard deployments vs. the courts. Meet the candidate who quit Trump’s DOJ to run for Congress. Plus: Kellyanne Conway brings Ukraine to Trumpworld.
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Over and over again: Senators told the NOTUS Hill team yesterday that after the fifth vote on the same continuing resolution, life in the chamber was beginning to feel like “Groundhog Day.” Democrats, however, said it was a time loop they were willing to bear.
“I was in the Marines. You know how many times I had to do the same thing over and over again?” Sen. Ruben Gallego said. “This is nothing.”
Are things moving at all? Monday was the day to talk about talking. The White House said there are and are not talks going on with Democrats about the shutdown. Karoline Leavitt said there were no discussions. Donald Trump said there were.