BREAKING: Senate Democrats block Trump’s plan to reopen government; Democratic proposal also fails…

by The Right Scoop

The Senate Democrats have now blocked a bill that would get Trump’s approval to reopen the government as well as fund the border wall:

This isn’t surprising, as there’s still enough intransigence to keep the government shutdown going.

What is surprising is that the AP actually wrote that it was the Democrats who blocked the bill. The Boston Globe wrote the same thing:

Other outlets made it sound much more generic:



Just 50 votes? I thought we had more seats than that in the Senate? Also, doesn’t that include Manchin??

Wow. Both Lee and Cotton apparently didn’t support it? Didn’t see that coming.

Clearly it wouldn’t have helped getting them to the 60 vote threshold, but still, I’m not sure why they’d vote against it. Does this have something to do with the Russian sanctions?

Also it appears that Rosen, Paul, and Risch didn’t vote.

In any event, the Democratic proposal to reopen the government for two weeks is being voted on now. And it’s expected to fail as well. And since Pelosi and her House Democrats have left Washington, don’t expect any further movement until next week.

Oh here we go. It failed, and here’s the defections:


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