WASHINGTON _ Sen. Lindsey Graham went on national television Sunday morning and declared that there would be no deal to end the partial government shutdown until top Democrats stopped calling Republicans "racists" for supporting a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
But none of the four top congressional Democrats negotiating an end to the shutdown have publicly used that term to describe President Donald Trump or other GOP colleagues.
Graham's charge was just the latest example of the unusually incendiary rhetoric members of both parties are deploying around a highly sensitive issue as the shutdown continues into its third week.
