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‘This has spiraled downward’: Trump, top Democrats put raw partisan divide on full display

Vice President Mike Pence, center, listens as President Donald Trump argues with House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

By Dave Boyer and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

President Trump and congressional Democratic leaders ripped off the bandage over their raw, partisan disagreements Tuesday in open bickering that offered a glimpse of the divided government to come in the next two years.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump stares down Dems in wall fight: ‘Proud to shut down the government for border security’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears before the House Judiciary Committee to be questioned about the internet giant's privacy security and data collection, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Pichai angered members of a Senate panel in September by declining their invitation to testify about foreign governments' manipulation of online services to sway U.S. political elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) addresses Boys & Girls Club executives, board members, youth, and supporters from 43 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico at the National Day of Advocacy Congressional Reception in the Hart Senate Building on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/AP Images for Boys & Girls Clubs of America) ** FILE **

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Migrant family members move into a hole to cross under the U.S. border wall, aided by two local guides, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall illegally and hand themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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