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Reactions are pouring in from Capitol Hill after House Democrats released new emails from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein referencing President Donald Trump.
James Carville said Tuesday that Democrats lacked a real "endgame" strategy during the government shutdown, and urged the party to move on during a conversation with Jim Acosta.
At a Wednesday briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats for the federal government’s failure to release the October jobs report. KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: And our economy has lost billions and billions of dollars in economic activity over the course of this shutdown,
He was the lone Democratic House member from Texas to vote for the spending bill, which would fund the government through Jan. 30 and is expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.
The three emails appear to be exchanges between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as the author Michael Wolff and Epstein.
The president's rant comes after newly released Epstein documents suggest he may have known about the late financier's crimes.
Dale Romans, pitching himself as an independent-minded Democrat in the mold of Joe Manchin, will try to win a seat for the party in the deep-red state.
The bombshell emails come at a moment of peril for Republicans, and pushes Democrats' internal fight over the shutdown out of headlines