Democrats Close Government to Defund ICE with Republican Help
"A majority of the Senate voted yes, 71 yes, to 29 no, to pass a bill that allows Democrats to debate the closing of ICE and ending of illegal alien enforcement. This included Republicans. You can get dizzy watching the Senate and Chuck Schumers tirades. In doing so they closed the entire Government again," says Eugene Delgaudio president of Public Advocate
The majority of the federal government will shut down at midnight after the Senate insisted on amending a House-passed spending bil painstakingly negotiated over months with Democrats.
The spending bill, which passed the Senate on a 71-29 vote, funds around two-thirds of the federal government, including the U.S. Departments of War, Treasury, State, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education.
Yet by amending the bill the House sent to the Senate to remove a long-term bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, the House must return to Washington to attempt to pass the Senate-amended version - far from a sure thing.
With the House out of town, the agencies left unfunded by Congress will shut down after midnight, although congressional leaders and the White House hope the shutdown could end as soon as Monday when the House returns to Washington.
That timeline and outcome could be optimistic...........................
The bill passed by the Senate, supported by a White House eager to avoid a longer-term shutdown, includes a two-week continuing resolution (CR) for DHS spending, setting up an intense fight on a longer-term DHS bill when - or if - the House passes the Senate's funding bill.