Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said that the White House's threatened firings if a government shutdown proceeds don't "have to happen" if Democrats sign onto a GOP plan to keep the government open.
The big picture: Still, Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), don't seem to be budging and are largely dismissing the Trump administration's warning to prepare for mass shakeups to an already unrecognizable federal workforce.
