The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is expected to continue its painful stretch, as the Senate holds votes on two separate legislative packages, neither of which is expected to pass or end the standoff.
Amid the lack of an immediate legislative solution President Donald Trump is continuing to insist on a border wall, tweeting Thursday that without a wall 'there cannot be safety and security at the Border or for the U.S.A.'
'BUILD THE WALL AND CRIME WILL FALL!' Trump wrote, continuing to link immigration and crime. There were not talks set between Trump and congressional leaders on ending the shutdown – hours after Trump blinked and said he would not deliver a scheduled State of the Union Address in the House chamber after Speaker Nancy Pelosi withdrew his invitation until the government was reopened.
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is expected to continue its painful stretch as the Senate takes up bills that would end the shutdown, but neither is expected to get the needed 60 votes
The House is scheduled to leave town Thursday afternoon, after voting on a bill to provide funding for the Homeland Security Department.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up individual spending bills that would reopen the government.
The Senate will, however, try something new by taking up votes on legislation that would end the shutdown for the first time since it began.
However senators are predicting both will fail. To pass they would need to get 60 votes.
President Donald Trump tweeted again about the border wall Thursday
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that two bills, one including Trump's border wall and another that encompasses Democratic legislation to reopen the government for three weeks, would come up Thursday
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi withdrew her invitation to President Trump to deliver his state of the union address until after the shutdown
A federal worker stands with a placard reading "Will Work For Pay" as other federal employees stage a rally to call for a vote on the shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2019
Either measure would reopen federal agencies and pay 800,000 federal workers who are days from missing yet another paycheck. Republicans would couple ending the 34-day shutdown with $5.7 billion for President Donald Trump's border wall and revamping immigration laws. Democrats would reopen agency doors for three weeks while bargainers seek a budget accord.
Twin defeats might spur the two sides into a more serious effort to strike a compromise. Almost every proposal needs 60 votes to advance in the Senate, which is under 53-47 Republican control.
'It's hard to imagine 60 votes developing for either one,' said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. GOP moderates such as Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine are expected to vote for the Democratic plan, as is Cory Gardner of Colorado, one of the few Republicans representing a state carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
With the impacts of the shutdown becoming increasingly painful, however, lawmakers on both sides were trumpeting their willingness to compromise in the battle over border security and immigration issues such as protection against deportation for so-called Dreamer immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
The Capitol is seen early Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, as rain falls on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, with the partial government shutdown in its second month. The Senate will vote on two competing proposals today to end the impasse, but neither seems to have enough votes to advance
'It's clear what the president wants. It's clear what we want. If you have a negotiation, both parties are going to put on the table what they want,' said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. 'By definition a successful negotiation gets to a place where both sides feel they got something, right?'
But just starting negotiations is a tripping point. Democrats insist on opening the government first rather than reward Trump's tactics, while Republicans warn that immediately reopening the government would give Democrats too much leverage in any talks.
'No shutdown. No hostages,' said Rep. Ruben Gallegos, D-Ariz. 'You get nothing in return until you release the hostages.'
Trump's ex-chief of staff, John Kelly, joined several other former Homeland Security secretaries in signing a letter urging Trump and his Democratic rival to end the shutdown. House Democrats slated a Thursday morning hearing on the effects of the shutdown on the DHS.
The partial shutdown began just before Christmas after Trump indicated that he wouldn't sign a stopgap spending bill backed by top Republicans like Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who shepherded a bill funding the government up to Feb. 8 through the Senate. The House passed a plan with wall funding as one of the last gasps of the eight-year GOP majority.
President Donald Trump, second from right, speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, as he hosts a roundtable with conservative leaders to discuss the security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border
A view of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019
On Thursday, almost five weeks later, House Democrats continued work on a package that would ignore Trump's demand for $5.7 billion for a wall with Mexico and would instead pay for other ideas aimed at protecting the border.
Details of Democrats' border security plan and its cost remained a work in progress. Party leaders said it would include money for scanning devices and other technological tools for improving security at ports of entry and along the boundary, plus funds for more border agents and immigration judges.
'If his $5.7 billion is about border security, then we see ourselves fulfilling that request, only doing it with what I like to call using a smart wall,' said No. 3 House Democratic leader Jim Clyburn, D-S.C.
A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released Wednesday was the latest indicator that the shutdown is hurting Trump with the general public. While his approval among Republicans remains strong, just 34 percent of Americans like his performance as president and 6 in 10 assign a great deal of responsibility to him for the shutdown, around double the share blaming Democrats.
The Senate GOP bill would temporarily shield from deportation 700,000 'Dreamers,' protections Trump has tried terminating. He's also offered temporary protections for people who fled violence or natural disasters in several countries - another program the president has curtailed.
With Democrats eager to show they're trying to end the impasse, the House used mostly party-line votes Wednesday to approve one measure reopening government agencies through February. By a similar tally, the chamber voted to finance most shuttered agencies through September.
Growing numbers of House Democrats say the party should show where it stands on border security.
'Right now it's a vacuum and the president is offering fake plans to stop drug smuggling,' said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. Offering a Democratic alternative 'helps the possibility of beginning a real negotiation,' he said.
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