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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: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:37PM (4 children)
Here it is again that you're painting things as the result of the actions of religious whackos. That is not so. That was the main of George W. Bush's administration. It's not, here, now.
This particular situation has nothing to do with religion. It is about immigration and also about the visceral hatred that some have for Donald Trump. If the question was about whether to fund llama ranchers, and Trump liked llama ranchers, they would still shut down the government because they hate Trump that much.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @03:50PM
full of faggotry is moderation today
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:52PM (2 children)
You miss the point someone else made, the christian churches play directly into the hands of the Repugnicans often by directly correlating the R with a vote for God. Phoenix I know the chaos can be tough to handle, but you're drifting off into crazyville quite steadily.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:43AM
If Christ came back today, he would be a Liberal Jew! Well, a Jew, and certainly not anything close to Netandhowyou. So these white supremacist, pro-capitalist, anti-Black_Lives_Matter, misogynist supporters of a con man NewYorkCity real estate developer, liar, philanderer, and repeat taker-of-the Lord's-Name-in-vain are in NO SENSE OF THE WORD CHRISTIANs! This is clear to everyone but their selves. They are actually just Mormons, without the fanciful history.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:11PM
Except Trump is not the darling of the Religious Right. They liked Cruz and not Trump. Now they prefer Pence to Trump. They would be quite happy for Trump to be impeached and have Pence take the helm so they could pass their priorities, which are abortion, homeschooling, prayer in school, and all those other things that have been their priorities for 40 years and which they've never gotten despite Republicans holding all the reins of power several times in that period because they're too darn useful in duping them into voting for Republicans.
That is why I assert that the religious right is not the driving force in Trump's support. It's not the hackneyed Republican caricatures we all know and love (?). They are inchoate rage, the inevitable evolution of the forces that produced the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
Washington DC delenda est.