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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors

about politics. It's Thursday, January 18th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of

The New Yorker. As the government shutdown enters its fifth week, the longest of any in American history,

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to support Trump's demand to include funding for a border wall in the new budget.

Democrats, who this month took control of the House of Representatives, say that the House will reject any such bill.

On Tuesday, reporters asked McConnell if he'd consider working out a bipartisan compromise

that could override Trump's veto, a suggestion he dismissed out of hand.

In a situation like this where the president, in my view, is in the right place, trying to get the right outcome, as all of us have expressed, with regard to border security, of course not.

Leader McConnell both the what was this?

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