Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Friday that he is pushing for Democrats to “reengage” in bipartisan talks to end the shutdown after the “wheels fell off” when Democrats unified around a plan to push for more concessions.

The two sides were closing in on a deal centered on a short-term spending measure with a “minibus” of three full-year spending bills attached and a future vote on a health care subsidy package in some form.

However, those talks did a U-turn Thursday around lunchtime as Democratic negotiators sounded a sour note, followed by a show of unity across the conference to hold out for more wins in a potential deal.

“AlI know is that the pep rally they had a lunch yesterday evidently changed some minds. I thought we were on a track. We had given them everything t

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