2020 Democrats rejected Trump's latest 'compromise' to end the shutdown — here's what they had to say

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• Democrats this weekend roundly rejected President Donald Trump's offer to extend protections for Dreamers in exchange for funding for his border wall.
• Potential presidential candidates including Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders accused the president of using Dreamers as bargaining chips and urged him to end the government shutdown.
• Trump forced a government shutdown five weeks ago over funding for a border wall.

President Trump's latest offer to end the shutdown wasn't received well by Democratic politicians who are eyeing a 2020 White House bid.

Democrats this weekend roundly rejected Trump's proposal, which would extend protection for undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, known as Dreamers, in exchange for funding for a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump forced a government shutdown in late December to pressure Congress into approving the wall funding. 

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