The Patriot Post® · Monday Top Headlines

• Trump casts doubt on seeing a budget deal that he’d accept (Associated Press)

• Trump signs bill to end partial government shutdown (Fox News)

• Pelosi: State of the Union still isn’t happening (Townhall)

• Schumer on the shutdown ending: “Hopefully now the president has learned his lesson” (Fox News)

• Shutdown denies $5.7 billion border wall while costing America $40 billion (The Daily Wire)

• U.S. delays returning asylum seekers to Mexico (Agence France-Presse)

• Caravan 2.0: The numbers are massive, even by Mexico’s count (Townhall)

• HHS moves to protect religious liberty in adoptions, foster care (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Roger Stone indictment underscores that there was no Trump-Russia conspiracy (National Review)

• Kamala Harris draws bigger crowd than Obama for launch of White House bid (Washington Examiner)

• British newspaper agrees to pay Melania Trump “substantial damages” over false reporting (The Daily Wire)

• U.S., Taliban agree to preliminary peace framework (The Hill)

• Venezuela’s Maduro rejects election ultimatum as U.S. envoy defects to opposition leader (NBC News)

• Humor: Statement by Pinocchio rated four Ocasio-Cortezes (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Helpful reforms are on the way at Veterans Affairs (Washington Examiner)

• Policy: The “Green New Deal” is a prescription for poverty (Washington Examiner)

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