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Here's the latest on the shutdown day 12.

The new Congress begins tomorrow, and leaders are going to the White House this afternoon

for a border security briefing with President Donald Trump.

We've barely seen the president after he canceled his

16-day winter getaway to Mara Lago. The House, which will be run by Nancy Pelosi as of

tomorrow afternoon, will pass its stopgap spending bill by 7 p.m. tomorrow evening. It will fund

most of the government through September, but kick DHS funding to February.

Democrats will make the argument that they're governing while the White House is sowing chaos.

The calculus by the president and many of his allies is that Pelosi isn't a jam and cannot

sustain a no money for a border wall position. Trump tweeted this Tuesday.

Border security and the wall thing and shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as speaker. Let's make a

deal. But Pelosi gains from this fight internally. The border security money in the stop gap,

$1.3 billion, is plenty for most Democrats. Since Pelosi has ruled out a

DACA for border wall deal, there really is no deal to be had. The new House majority is already making

moves. Pelosi and Jim McGovern, incoming House Rules Committee chairman, rolled out House Democrats

rule package Tuesday night. Changes include a 72-hour rule to allow members of Congress

time to review bills before they are voted on, a consensus calendar to move quickly on legislation

with bipartisan support, and it created a bipartisan select committee to modernize Congress.

One interesting thing worth noting, the rules also change the process by which

the House can remove the speaker, the so-called motion to vacate. The motion now needs to be at the

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