· a third gop senator said trump undermined thune ’ s and speaker mike johnson ’ s (r-la. ) efforts to shut down democrats’ demands for a health care negotiation during the shutdown. President donald trump , speaker mike johnson and senate majority leader john thune are straining to project a united front against democrats, just barely concealing tensions over strategy. No negotiations until the shutdown ends. But as the impasse drags on, some. · speaker mike johnson and senate majority leader john thune want to show democrats there’s no daylight inside the gop: · eight democratic senators on sunday joined their gop colleagues to break the impasse over government funding that had resulted in the longest-ever federal shutdown in u. s. · as the deadline to fund the government and avoid a partial government shutdown approaches, president donald trump has pressured republican lawmakers to pass a continuing resolution. · senator john thune , republican of south dakota and the majority leader, said his party would not bow to democrats’ demands to tie a spending extension to health care concessions. · republican leaders have stuck to a straightforward position in their standoff with democrats over government funding: Republicans will negotiate a deal to extend expiring affordable care.
