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President Donald Trump\u2019s administration also threatened to carry out mass firings during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is also being criticized for blaming Democrats for the shutdown in emails to federal workers \u2015 something experts say may violate the Hatch Act. Trump and members of his inner circle have also repeatedly claimed Democrats are fighting to give free health care to undocumented immigrants, which is wildly misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday fiercely defended Trump during a very combative hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government shut down last week after Democrats and Republicans came to an impasse over the former\u2019s efforts to protect health care for the millions of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43959,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43958","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government Shutdown Enters Week 2 As Democrats Spar With GOP Over Health Care: Live Updates - 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