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Why Trump will likely lose the government shutdown

  • Written by John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, Lagrange College
President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

One of the biggest myths about government shutdowns is that presidents usually win.

This may explain why President Donald Trump threatened to continue the shutdown for months, even years. However, a poll conducted in the first week of January shows that 51 percent of...

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