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Weekly Trump report card: Shutdown overshadows jobs explosion

By Paul Bedard

Published January 5, 2019 1:19pm ET

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Weekly Trump report card: Shutdown overshadows jobs explosion — President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House after a meeting with Congressional leaders on border security, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, at the White House in Washington.

This week’s White House Report Card finds President Trump cheering the explosion of jobs and a Wall Street turnaround while grappling with the continued partial government shutdown.

Add in his controversial comments about Afghanistan and Syria, the Democratic takeover in the House and a Democratic member’s personal attack on Trump, and it was another mixed week.

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