Donald Trump pitch for $5 Billion wall money fell on deaf ears before it even got announced last week…
No Wall money….
No deal discussion ‘s until the government workers go back to work….
THAT was the two conditions from Democrats under the leadership of Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi in the House…
We now find out that Republican Senate Majority Leader McConnell is gonna finally have a vote in the Senate….
The pitch to get 7 Democratic Senate votes to get a bill approval is addition money for disaster aid that Trump wanted to steal for his wall, some temporary immigration enforcement pull back, other things and of course approval for a the government agencies funding….
Oh, and the Senate bill would have Trump’s entire $5 Billion Wall money….
Democrats CANNOT vote for this….
They CANNOT approve anything until the government workers go back…
They CANNOT approve $5 Billion in Trump wall money…
McConnell KNOWS this….
Stay tuned…
It’s been 32 days….
Senate Republicans plan to include $12.7 billion in disaster aid and government funding through the end of the fiscal year in their bill to advance President Donald Trump’s immigration proposal.
The president’s plan will test Democrats’ solidarity, pitting border security funding against protections for young immigrants and refugees. Now, it will also force Democrats to vote against bipartisan funding levels, aid for disaster-hit communities and an extension of the Violence Against Women Act, according to a summary of the Senate plan, obtained by POLITICO.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Saturday said the Senate will take up the package in the coming week…..
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But there is little hope on Capitol Hill that the package will end the shutdown, which entered its fifth week on Saturday. Democrats remain firm in refusing to negotiate an immigration deal until after the government is reopened.
“The president’s trade offer — temporary protections for some immigrants in exchange for a border wall boondoggle — is not acceptable,” House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) said in a statement following Trump’s televised immigration offer on Saturday.
House Democrats plan to take up their tenth bill to reopen the government in the coming week. Each previous bill has netted only a few Republican supporters, with McConnell saying the Senate won’t take up any spending bills the president won’t sign.
The House bill also reflects bipartisan conference agreements Republican and Democratic appropriators in both chambers negotiated last year….
image…BusinessInsider
Senate votes down BOTH Trump GOP and Democratic bills aimed at reopening the government…..
Roll calls will appear within the hour here:
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/116th-congress/senate-amendment/5
and here: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/116th-congress/senate-amendment/6
Here’s the cloture motion on the amendment from Sen. Richard Shelby (R, formerly D, Alabama):
1 Democrat for: Joe Manchin (D-W. Va)
2 Republicans against: Mike Lee (R-Utah) & Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
1 Democrat and 2 Republicans Not Voting:
Rand Paul (R-Ky) & Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
Jackie Rosen (D-Nev.)
Senators Lee and Cotton are both diehard members of the Freedom Caucus.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00009
Interesting….
Manchin was on the ffence the last 24 hours
I would think that despite the noise?
The final compromise is somewhere in the two voted bills?
A good compromise has both parties not completely happy?
I see Pelosi giving money for border security
But Trump is gonna have to ok DACA and some more….
No outright wall money…
Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Schumer Amdt. No. 6 )
Vote Number: 10 Vote Date: January 24, 2019, 03:18 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 6 to H.R. 268 (Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019)
Statement of Purpose: Of a perfecting nature.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 52
NAYs 44
Not Voting 4
4 Republicans for cloture:
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
3 Republicans & 1 Democrat Not Voting:
Rand Paul (R-Ky), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) & Richard Burr (R-NC)
Jackie Rosen (D-Nev.)
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00010
¶ Details of the Shelby amendment in my previous post, which also failed cloture:
Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion Invoke Cloture on the Shelby Amdt. No. 5 )
Vote Number: 9 Vote Date: January 24, 2019, 02:42 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 5 to H.R. 268 (Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019)
Statement of Purpose: Of a perfecting nature.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 50
NAYs 47
Not Voting 3
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00009
So cloture won a plurality but not the 3/5 vote necessary to close off debate and vote (Shelby 50 – 47 & Schumer 52 – 44)