US Government Shuts Down Over Immigration and Budget Fight

“We are sad that the republican party, which has control of the house, the senate and the white house, failed to pass a spending bill to keep the federal government open”.

Kicking off a second weekend Senate session of crisis management, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Democrats to admit they miscalculated about forcing a lapse in federal funding, and vote to pass a temporary spending bill before the work week begins.

A big issue that’s holding up an agreement to reopen the government is negotiating over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, otherwise known as DACA, which democrats are hoping for some sort of resolution on during this process. The Dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked.

“Mr. Schumer is going to have to up his game a little bit and be a little bit more honest with the president of the United States if we’re going to see progress on that front”, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney said in a White House briefing Saturday afternoon.

Congressional Republicans also laid the blame at Democrats’ feet and named the shutdown after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, calling it the Schumer Shutdown. In the end, while five Democrats voted for it, four Republicans also voted against the measure.

“The shutdown should stop today”.

In 2017, President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order that extended DACA.

White House chief of staff John Kelly called members of Congress from the White House to discuss ending the shutdown.

Trump has tweeted multiple times since the shutdown began that it was the fault of Democrats for letting it happen.

The statement, put out by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, made it clear that the Trump Administration “will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands”. I wonder what the vote would have been if the choice was between Republicans and Democrats?

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said a resolution that would fund the government in exchange for a vote on immigration would help draw support in the Senate. It’s unclear whether the bill has enough votes to pass the Senate.

However, Schumer said he and the Senate’s leading Republican Mitch McConnell had “come to an arrangement” and there was now a “real pathway” to a vote on the immigration bill.

Earlier Sunday, President Donald Trump urged his party to change Senate rules to end the filibuster, a proposal both parties have traditionally shirked away from, and which McConnell rejected.