Live updates: Trump lauds US ties with Japan; shutdown stress mounts for Senate

President Trump met with Japan’s caller premier curate Tuesday, conscionable days aft Sanae Takaichi took office. Lavishing praise, helium told her, “Anything I tin bash to assistance Japan, we volition beryllium there. We are an state astatine the strongest level.” Later, helium rallied U.S. troops aboard the USS George Washington, docked extracurricular Tokyo, praising Defense…