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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Tuesday backed off the idea of forcing votes on so-called rifle shot funding bills to pay some federal workers during the shutdown, including troops and air traffic controllers. “This piecemeal approach, where you do one-off here, one-off there to make it seem more politically palatable to somebody or less painful, that’s just the wrong way to do this,” he told reporters on the 28th day of the shutdown. “There’s just a simple way to do it — it’s to pic

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) insisted Wednesday that Republicans’ short-term government funding proposal was “partisan” because it was a continuation of the funding levels that House Democrats largely rejected in March. “It represented, at the time, an attack on veterans, an attack on housing, an attack on nutritional assistance and an attack on the health care of the American people,” he said. “The legislation that they’ve put before the House and now the Senate in a take-it-or-