Comment on The Government Will Almost Certainly Shut Down After Failed Vote

Inae Oh, Mother Jones
Fri, 01/19/2018 - 8:45pm

The Government Will Almost Certainly Shut Down After Failed Vote

The federal government will almost certainly shut down starting midnight tonight, following the failure of last-minute budget negotiations to create a stopgap solution to protect the nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. The nail-biting showdown coincides with the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration—a milestone Democrats are portraying as a glaring failure of leadership, given that Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress but were unable to muster the votes to pass the bill. A critical procedural vote needed for the motion to proceed failed around 10:30 p.m.

 

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