Exactly One Year After Donald Trump Became President, the Government Shuts Down

Five Democrats joined with Republicans to back it.

House members have been advised to keep their schedules flexible in the event the Senate strikes a deal. Social Security and most other safety net programs should be unaffected by the lapse in federal spending authority.

He added: “For those asking, the Republicans only have 51 votes in the Senate, and they need 60”. Instead, he’s facing a government shutdown.

Mr Schumer had earlier met the U.S. president at the White House. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not end with an actionable deal. Some Democrats voted against the bill because it did not include measures to shield from deportation immigrants who were brought to the US illegally as children. Vice President Mike Pence is still scheduled to take off Friday evening for the Middle East.

While there have been shutdowns before – the longest occurred during Bill Clinton’s presidency when the government shut down for 21 days – this is the first time a full shutdown has occurred when one party has control of both Houses of Congress and the White House.

“Last night, I voted to keep the government open & extend Child Health Insurance for 6 years for 4,516 kids in DESCHUTES COUNTY who rely on the program”.

Republicans counter-offered with a delay until February 8, which Democrats rejected.

Democrats want a funding measure to be tied to an immigration deal that protects the thousands of young immigrants facing deportation. Both parties reportedly opposed the idea of securing government funding with short-term bills, calling for a more long-term sustainable solution.

Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, told local media that the good news is that business and consumer confidence is much stronger today than it was during the 2013 shutdown, but he pointed out that there could be less confidence due to the shutdown. “But voting against it would have hurt every resident of New Jersey”.

“The leader is looking to deflect blame but it just won’t work”.

Junior White House aides are using their out-of-office messages to assign blame to Democrats for the government shutdown.

Trump had summoned Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to the White House Friday afternoon in hopes of cutting a deal. The Democrats’ negotiating stance is: Give us this amnesty, or we’ll make the government shut down and blame you Republicans for it.

Things broke down afterwords when the two sides disagreed on what length of temporary funding measure they’d agreed to support. Republicans pointed out that Democrats were needed to get the Senate bill over a filibuster.

It also said it would not discuss immigration until the government is up and running again.

“It’s nearly as if you were rooting for a shutdown and now we’ll have one and the blame should crash entirely on President Trump’s shoulders”, he said.