With less than 24 hours before the government runs out of money, precipitating a partial shutdown of services, President Donald Trump let the Democrats know that there are limits to what he and the Republican Congress will accept to keep the government operating. Democrats have been piling up conditions under which they will agree to a budget resolution that funds the government through September 30.  But the difficulty of the negotiations has forced Hill Republicans to offer a one-week extension of funding to keep the government operating. If Democrats won't accept the stopgap measure, the president is prepared for a government shutdown. Reuters: "We'll see what happens. If there's a shutdown, there's a shutdown," Trump told Reuters in an interview, adding that Democrats would be to blame if the federal government was left unfunded. Congress has until 12:01 a.m. ET on Saturday to pass a bill to fund the government or face a shutdown,...(Read Full Post)