Congressional Democrats are marching in lockstep into the fourth week of a government shutdown, even as lawmakers brace for what could be the most painful point yet — a cutoff in federal food aid for more than 40 million people.

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are signaling that there will be no change in strategy: Democrats won’t provide the votes to reopen the government unless their demands over health care are met. And they’re increasingly hammering President Donald Trump for his failure to sit down to negotiate with Democrats, while instead embarking on his second foreign trip so far during the shutdown.

“This is all Trump,” a visibly frustrated Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont told CNN. “Trump’s not engaged. Republicans won’t negotiate,” Welch said, arguing that Trump’s trip to Asia this week as “an indication of how he could care less.”

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      Yeah, bro…

      Obviously we should just do easy things that don’t matter instead of productive things that are difficult.

      Who cares if it’s effective as long as you get a quick dopamine hit.

      Feel free to go boycott Target about Exon mobile.

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        I think you completely missed my point.

        You are being aggressive and short tempered with someone who is your ally.

        There is no justifiable reason to treat people this way.

        All the snark does not help. That’s not how to have a productive conversation. You know that messaging matters and so all this could possibly mean is that you care more about feeling good from being snarky than actually improving anything.

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        No one is disagreeing with you. The antagonist you imagine is not in this comment thread