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After 10 PM EST on Friday, The U.S. Senate rejected a deal that would fund the U.S. government for another month:
Only five Democrats voted to advance the bill — Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), who are all up for reelection this year in states carried by President Trump in 2016 election, and newly-elected Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.).
Republicans were also not united, as Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) also voted against advancing the legislation. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, was absent.
The procedural vote remained open late Friday, though it needed 60 votes to pass and was well short of that number with 48 senators voting against it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer continued to negotiate after the vote opened (archive), but no deal has been reached yet. As of midnight (5 minutes before this story went live), the government shutdown was in effect.
At Wikipedia: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Government shutdowns in the United States.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:24AM (1 child)
Fuck you, and the God you rode in on! Oh, and all the underage girls and boys you also molested! It is not so much that any one hates evangelical Republicans, it is just that they are such scum, such hypocrites, such traitors to the very God they profess to serve, such selfish and demon possessed evil fucks that they think they are holy? So I say again, Fuck any God that would claim such filth as his followers. And don't get me started on Mormons. No hate here, just facts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:13AM
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