The US Senate leadership has reached a bipartisan deal to vote for funding President Donald Trump’s border wall and reopen the federal government after more than one month of partial shutdown.
Leaders in the US Senate announced on Tuesday that they had struck an agreement to hold two votes on January 24 in order to end the shutdown stalemate on Capitol Hill.
The first vote will be on Trump’s proposals to reopen the federal government and providing $5.7 billion in funding for the border wall and the second on extending legal protections to some immigrants for a span of three years.
Both of the proposals will require 60 votes to advance.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell expressed hope that the Thursday vote on legislation to fund Trump’s border wall on the US-Mexico border would reopen shuttered parts of the government.
“The opportunity to end all this is staring us right in the face. That’s why we’ll vote on this legislation on the…