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    Trump says Pelosi is behaving 'irrationally' in shutdown impasse as Russia questions mount

    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times Jan 20, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - As a damaging partial government shutdown hit the 30-day mark on Sunday, President Donald Trump sought to allay criticism from conservative critics who fear he is softening his hard line on immigration, while unleashing strident new attacks against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    Trump, in Twitter posts, lambasted the San Francisco Democrat, who has emerged as his chief antagonist in the standoff, for behaving "irrationally" in rejecting his offer Saturday of temporary legal protection for some immigrants and refugees in exchange for the funding he wants for a barrier along the border with Mexico.

    Yet the president's suggested compromise was dismissed as well by his usual allies on the anti-immigration right,

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