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Call 1-800-Tribune Thursday, January 10, 2019 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Trump dismisses Dems: ‘Bye-bye’ Negotiation for border wall funds barely got started before it ended By Catherine Lucey, Lisa Mascaro and Laurie Kellman Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump walked out of his negotiating meeting with congressional leaders Wednes- day — “I said bye-bye,” he tweeted soon after — as efforts to end the 19-day partial gov- ernment shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his de- mand for billions of dollars to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers now face lost paychecks Friday. The president is to visit the border Thursday, but he has expressed his own doubts that his appearance and remarks will change any minds. The brief session in the White House Situation Room ended almost as soon as it began. Democrats said they asked ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Trump to reopen the govern- Environmental Protection Agency scientist Loreen Targos, 32, is juggling the cost of two homes with no promise of another paycheck. ment, but he told them if he did they wouldn’t give him money for the wall that has been his signature promise since his presidential campaign two In Chicago area, shutdown years ago. Republicans said Trump posed a direct question to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: If he opened the government turning lives upside down would she fund the wall? She said no. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Trump Some 40K workers across region affected. These are some of their stories. slammed his hand on the table and walked out. Republicans By Morgan Greene and Elvia Malagon | Chicago Tribune ers, some ordinary people who “Why is this time the time?” said Trump, who passed out rely on government programs said Targos about the shut- candy at the start of the meet- The effects of a government shutdown with no end in sight are are facing their own set of down. “When I got married and ing, did not raise his voice and starting to seep into the everyday lives of Chicagoans. hurdles — and more are ex- have a mortgage?” there was no table-pounding. pected to be hit as the situation Targos said she and her One result was certain: The As the shutdown continued into its third week, with President drags on. husband bought a home in shutdown plunged into new Donald Trump demanding $5 billion for his border wall and others Here are snapshots of some Pilsen in September with the territory with no endgame in fighting for the government to reopen, local federal workers braced of those affected by the shut- help of a Federal Housing sight. The Democrats see the down: Administration loan but haven’t idea of the long, impenetrable for missed paychecks, mortgage payments and uncertainty over been able to move in yet. So wall as ineffective and even when they would return to work. More than 40 agencies employ EPA scientist: Loreen Targos, she’s covering the cost of two immoral, a terrible use of the about 40,000 federal employees across the region, according to the an EPA scientist in the Great homes with no promise of $5.7 billion Trump is asking. He Chicago Federal Executive Board. Lakes National Program Office another paycheck. And she has sees it as an absolute necessity and a steward for the American also received a message that her to stop what he calls a crisis of The federal government Trump made a Tuesday night Federation of Government Em- health benefits could be in illegal immigration, drug- shutdown in January 2018 es- address to the nation and ployees Local 704, said she jeopardy after a few missed smuggling and human traffick- sentially ended after one work- planned a Thursday visit to the never thought about having to paychecks. ing at the border. day. This shutdown was in its U.S.-Mexico border. get another job — until this 19th day as of Wednesday. Along with furloughed work- week. Turn to Shutdown, Page 8 Turn to Shutdown, Page 13 ’20 Ford Explorer to ComEd set to replace be made in Chicago Ford returned to its roots by some Northbrook lines launching a fully-redesigned rear-wheel drive 2020 Ex- now have to replace again.” Power surges prompt plorer on Tuesday. The best- Now, ComEd is scheduled to selling three-row crossover drive to perform the replace some of the power lines in will be built in Chicago. Mov- her neighborhood. neighborhood upgrades ing from front-wheel drive like Levin said that after she filed a most other crossovers boosts By Alexandra Kukulka claim in 2014, she was dropped sportiness, towing capability Pioneer Press from her insurance company be- and larger passenger accom- cause she reported more than modations, Ford said. It is a After a power surge struck a $20,000 in damages. Levin has a vital vehicle for the company, Northbrook neighborhood in new insurance company but pays whose crossover lineup has 2014, the list of appliances Leslie more for home owners insurance, grown stale amid a booming Levin had to replace was long. she said. market. Business She was left to purchase two In September 2014 and again in new sump pumps, electric ovens, September 2018, residents living an electric cook top, a washing near Northbrook Junior High RICH SAAL/AP machine, dishwasher and alarm School experienced power surges system, among other things. that resulted in thousands of Rosenstein plans to About four years later, it hap- dollars in damages to electronic Democrats bolster numbers pened again. appliances, furnaces and air condi- leave Justice Dept. A similar power surge forced tioning units and outlets. Ahead of Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker’s inauguration next week, Demo- The most visible Justice De- Levin to once again replace appli- Residents say they have shared crats strengthened their numbers in Springfield and House Speaker partment protector of Robert ances and household electronics. their concerns with village offi- Michael Madigan tried to urge cooperation while vilifying Republi- Mueller’s Russia probe is ex- “If it was plugged in the wall, it cials and argue that ComEd is not can Gov. Bruce Rauner. Madigan won the gavel again Wednesday as pected to leave after a new was lost,” Levin said. “All the stuff a new class of lawmakers was sworn into office. Senate President attorney general is confirmed. that I replaced four years ago I Turn to Lines, Page 9 John Cullerton, above, was also easily elected. Chicagoland, Page 4 Nation & World, Page 10 Chicago Weather Center: Complete $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere High Low Tom Skilling’s forecast 30 22 forecast on back page of A+E section 171st year No. 10 © Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Thursday, January 10, 2019 SUSAN WALSH/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks with reporters following a meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday. John Kass Our leaders are lousy sausage-makers Before we get into all the liberal what’s going on along the southern president.” media hysteria over the government border isn’t a crisis, just Trumpian “The president stomped out of the shutdown and the southern border, rhetoric. But then many of the same meeting when he said to me, ‘Will you VINTAGE PHOTOS OF CHICAGO and Donald, Nancy and Chuck hissing geniuses told us that the caravan support a wall?’ And I said no,” Pelosi at one another while avoiding a work- coming up from Central America said. “Now they’re trying to mischar- The @vintagetribune Instagram, a beloved photography able compromise sitting right in front wasn’t real, until it was. acterize what he actually said. But account produced by the photo editors of the Chicago of their noses, a word about sausage- that’s par for the course with going to Tribune, has been mining the newspaper’s vast archives. making. The casing: Pelosi and Schumer the White House. These are the images that would have been posted had Yes. Sausage-making. want Trump to capitulate and reopen “You cannot come to a conclusion if Instagram existed in, say, 1932. This book is an unexpect- Because what they’re doing in the government, and after that’s done the president of the United States ed, inspired portrait of one of the world’s great metropo- Washington — with all their hot and he’s given away any leverage, they says, ‘My way or the highway, there’s lises, told through the lenses of the countless feet-on- shouting, blistering virtue-signaling promise they’ll continue negotiating nothing to negotiate, either agree the-street photographers from the city’s hometown and scorching shrieks and national on border security. with me or it’s over.’ “ paper. Get a copy at store.chicagotribune.com/books. temperature-raising over the govern- If Trump and the Republicans The pot said what, Nancy? ment shutdown — is unfortunately believe that Schumer and Pelosi will There is, of course a compromise HOW THE NEWSPAPER GETS PRINTED being called sausage-making. negotiate on border security after here: Trump wants border security. Visit the Tribune’s Freedom Center for a two and half Here’s a fact check: Screaming and Trump caves on a shutdown, the And I think most Americans want it hour tour of the printing presses, press plates and enor- shouting and encouraging the media Republicans are dumber than liberal too.