Rose meets with Trump in White House for shutdown talks
As the government shutdown dragged on, U.S. Rep. Max Rose and a bipartisan group of House members went to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Donald Trump to try and reach a compromise to reopen federal agencies.
The meeting did not produce an agreement between the lawmakers and the Republican president to end the shutdown, but Rose said he’s glad the group took the chance to reach across the divide and sit down with Trump.
“I was elected to solve problems. You have to make the effort. I want to end this shutdown as quickly as possible,” Rose told this newspaper in a phone interview a short time after returning to Capitol Hill from the White House meeting.