President Trump raised the stakes on Capitol Hill after the White House budget office directed federal agencies to plan for mass layoffs, rather than traditional workforce furloughs, if Democrats don't agree to a short-term stopgap funding measure ahead of next week’s shutdown deadline.

“This is all caused by the Democrats,” Trump said of the decision ahead of a Thursday huddle with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the White House. "They asked us........

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