The Senate is expected to consider two separate spending bills Thursday, but they are both likely to fail.
The House again on Wednesday passed a stopgap spending bill, as well as six of the spending bills House and Senate negotiators had worked out last year. Senate Republicans are unlikely to follow suit without a promise of border wall funding President Trump wants.
House Democrats were contemplating an immigration counter-offer to the President.
Among the federal employees working without pay during the partial government shutdown are more than 40,000 Coast Guard members.
“I find it unacceptable that @USCG members must rely on food pantries & donations to get through day-to-day life,” Admiral Karl Schultz, the Coast Guard commandant, said in a video on Twitter.
Post-Leadership, McConnell Plans to Push for More Defense Funding
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell steps down from his Senate leadership role after the November elections, he’ll have at least two more years in the Senate. Now he’s signaled one of his priorities as a rank-and-file Senator is to increase defense funding,...
