Watch the live stream of the Senate as they try to pass the House government funding bill with the additional wall funding:
Here’s what we know so far, via Chad Pergram:
Senate now taking procedural vote to put revamped House plan with wall funding on the floor. Needs majority vote
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 21, 2018
Senate procedural vote to call up Hse bill with wall changes started at 12:31 pm et. Flake voted no. Senate is 51-49 GOP. They may need Pence to break a tie. But GOPers need all of their members here. Otherwise, they can’t even start debate on the bill
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 21, 2018
There are no side negotiations going on now to avert a government shutdown. So unless something drastically changes, we are cruising toward a government shutdown.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 21, 2018
So Flake has already voted no. UPDATE: Corker is there on the Senate floor. I’m not sure what the status of the vote is at this point. But it appears, as Pergram suggests, they can’t even get past this vote to even bring up the bill.
Add to this what Trump said a few minutes ago after meeting with Republicans:
President Trump on the looming government shutdown: “It’s possible that we’ll have a shutdown. I would say the chances are probably very good…”
Follow live updates: https://t.co/GtaMlAlzle pic.twitter.com/f9SBsfm4AR
— CNN (@CNN) December 21, 2018
I’ll update this with more when we get it.