In Primetime Addresses, Trump and Democrats Show No Progress Toward Ending Shutdown

A pair of primetime addresses from the White House and Capitol Hill demonstrated Republicans and Democrats have made little progress in negotiating a conclusion to the partial government shutdown, which will enter its 19th day on Wednesday. President Trump used an Oval Office address to continue to press for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., responded in an address of their own to continue to call it wasteful and unnecessary. Both highlighted federal workers in their address: Trump to praise the work of Homeland Security Department employees whose demands he said formed the basis of his proposals, and Democratic congressional leaders to bemoan the casualties of shutdown politics.