From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, Democrats forced a shutdown by saying no budget deal without a docket deal.

Republicans have refused to end the shutdown by saying no docket deal without a budget deal.

The U.S. government is in a stalemate. It's Monday, January 22nd.

We begin with those high stakes negotiations underway at this hour.

Will there be a government shutdown or an 11th hour deal here?

So the big question as Friday began was, would there be some negotiations, some progress that would lead Senate Democrats to decide,

okay, fine, we will go along with voting for something that will keep the government open.

Thomas Kaplan has been covering the negotiations.

The possibility of a breakthrough there seemed to come when President Trump invited the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, to the White House, to meet.

President Trump stepping in today with an unexpected invitation to the Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer to come to the White House.

Over cheeseburgers, they talked about the issues that were outstanding.

This afternoon, in my heart, I thought we might have a deal tonight.

That was how far we'd come. That's how positive our discussion felt.

We had a good meeting.

But...

There's been plenty of arguing back and forth over what exactly played out in that meeting.

The way Senator Schumer recalls it, he agreed to fund the border wall that President Trump wants to build along the southern border with Mexico.

Essentially agreed to give the President something he has said he wants.

In exchange for something we both want.

In exchange for the President agreeing to an immigration measure, that would protect the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.

It is true. The Chuck Schumer made what I considered to be a bold and important concession and said, yes, we'll go forward with the wall.

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