Saturday’s looming deadline to fund the government or risk more than 40 million Americans losing their food benefits is increasing pressure on both parties to end the government shutdown .

President Donald Trump returns to Washington, D.C. , Thursday afternoon following a weeklong tour of Asia that saw him personally removed from the shutdown talks.

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And though the Trump administration has bailed out a number of spending initiatives they say would be threatened by Democrats’ repeated voting down of a funding package, including military pay and the Special Supplemental Nu

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