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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:21PM (2 children)
Somehow we won two World Wars without Blackwater, Haliburton, etc. Dump these leaches, and we will save tons of money on the Military.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:33PM
The first-ever Pentagon audit report should come out in November. That should provide some entertainment.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/364001-pentagon-starting-first-ever-financial-audit [thehill.com]
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-unaffordable-pentagon-audit-23784 [nationalinterest.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:54PM
To fight World War II we drafted 100% of the car companies. We ordered them to stop making cars. They made tanks, jeeps, and aircraft. We drafted 100% of the white good (dishwasher, clothes washer, clothes dryer, refrigerator, etc.) manufacturers. We put them to work for the war. We drafted the TV and radio manufacturers. We drafted the shipyards. We drafted the phone company...
That works great when research and development isn't much beyond determining how to bolt guns onto a tractor.
If it takes a decade to build a stealth aircraft or a decade to design and build a modern nuclear submarine, we're toast unless we have that already done. Modern war can be fast.
Taken to the extreme: oh no, an ICBM was just launched at us! SpaceX, we demand that you design and build a solution in the next 15 minutes.