1/19/2018

POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said their 90-minute talk at the White House on Friday [1-19-18] yielded progress but disagreements remain, as the deadline for a government shutdown loomed Friday night.
The president referred to the meeting and called for a four-week funding extension in a tweet around 5 p.m. Friday: ‘Excellent preliminary meeting in Oval with @SenSchumer – working on solutions for Security and our great Military together with @SenateMajLdr McConnell and @SpeakerRyan. Making progress – four week extension would be best!’
Sen. Schumer said discussions would continue as he returned to the Capitol in an effort to resolve an impasse over government spending and immigration that threatens to shut the government down for the first time since 2013…
A White House official said the meeting had been productive in clarifying what each side wanted, but said no deal had been reached. Messrs. Trump and Schumer and their chiefs of staff were the only people in Friday’s meeting, according to a person familiar with the talk.
One senator briefed on the meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Schumer said that it didn’t go well, putting the ball back in the court of Congress to find a path forward. Another person familiar with the meeting said it wasn’t contentious, but that it made clear that neither side would budge.”

-Kristina Peterson, Natalie Andrews, and Siobhan Hughes, “Trump Calls for Four-Week Funding Extension After Talk With Schumer as Possible Shutdown Looms,” The Wall Street Journal online, Jan. 19, 2018 05:46pm