Trump blames Democrats for deaths of children as shutdown grinds on

• President: deaths at border are result of ‘pathetic’ policies
• What have two years of Trump’s wrecking ball done?

As the US government shutdown rolled through its eighth day with no resolution in sight, Donald Trump stayed hunkered down in the White House, talking at Democrats but not with them in a series of confrontational tweets about his demand for a border wall.

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