The shutdown is starting to ‘bite the economy,’ top Trump aide warns. The Senate is struggling to make a deal.


A top economist in the Trump administration offered a fresh warning Friday about the record-setting government shutdown’s damaging effects, as the Senate struggled to make a deal to end the closure and airports began to reduce flights.

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