By SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government had shut down, and Donald Trump was calling on Democrats and Republicans to work together to get out of the mess.

“You have to get people in a room, and you have to just make deals for the good of the country,” Trump remarked.

The year was 2013 , and Trump was then a business mogul who had yet to enter politics. Now that he is president, Trump and his party are taking a strikingly different posture, refusing to negotiate with Democrats in a shutdown that Republicans say they instigated.

Just last year, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer was criticizing ideologues who “amazingly believe that causing a shutdown is somehow a good thing, if it gets them what they want.” Now Schumer and most of his fellow Demo

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