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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Protestors gather at Grand Army Plaza near the home of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the Senate floor following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:29 am
Top Democrat rescinds offer of $25 billion for Trump's wall
By ANDREW TAYLOR and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has taken back his offer of $25 billion for President Donald Trump's long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Schumer had made the offer last Friday in a last-ditch but unsuccessful effort to head off a government shutdown.
After Senate Democrats yielded Monday on Republican demands to reopen the government without an immigration deal, he came under scalding criticism from his party's liberal activist base that Democrats had given up too easily without more concrete promises on immigration.
On Tuesday, Schumer announced that the wall offer was off the table.
The shutdown battle — settled mostly on Trump's terms — has complicated the already difficult search for an immigration pact.
