Just before the Christmas holiday in 2018, then-President Donald Trump canceled his planned vacation to his Mar-a-Lago resort, citing the partial government shutdown: ‘I will not be going to Florida because of the Shutdown — Staying in the White House! #MAGA.’ The administration determined it would be poor optics for the president to spend 16 days in sunny Florida during a major political standoff.
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