Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed President Donald Trump is refusing to engage with Democratic leadership to end the government shutdown.

Host John Berman asked, “What do you think of the president’s assessment? We’ll get to what he wants to do about it in a second but the idea that the shutdown was partially to blame for Republican losses across the country.”

Kaine said, “I think Donald Trump’s shutdown was a factor. And in Virginia we’ve seen it more than virtually anybody. And for many Virginians, the shutdown started the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. Mass waves of firings, cancellation of economic development projects, clawbacks of public health monies the DOGE cuts led into this shutdown. President Trump has not done what every president does to av

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