{"id":344595,"date":"2018-01-20T00:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T23:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-in-disarray-with-shutdown-hours-away\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T00:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T23:27:28","slug":"senate-in-disarray-with-shutdown-hours-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-in-disarray-with-shutdown-hours-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate in Disarray with Shutdown Hours Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<h4>The chamber couldn&#8217;t agree on scheduling a vote, let alone passing legislation to keep the government open<\/h4>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how grim things looked in the Senate as the countdown continued toward a shutdown at midnight Friday: The chamber struggled to even schedule a vote to fund the government, let alone cobble together the votes to actually pass a bill.<\/p>\n<p>After the GOP House passed a partisan monthlong spending bill Thursday, senators in both parties appeared increasingly dug in. A spat on the Senate floor between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer culminated in the chamber adjourning with no clear path to avoid a shutdown in barely 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>No vote is scheduled, and the two party leaders spent the night sniping over who&#8217;s to blame for the impasse. Democrats are demanding protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants facing deportation, and Republicans are insisting that government funding not be tied to immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats have lined up in opposition to the spending bill approved by the House, putting the government on course for a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>For a few minutes late Thursday, it looked like the chamber couldn\u2019t even agree to adjourn for the night after Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) objected to going to bed. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) ducked onto the Senate floor, checking on whether he would vote to have to adjourn the chamber \u2014 a rare procedural step invoked only at moments of the most severe gridlock.<\/p>\n<p>Past 10 p.m.,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/senate-in-disarray-with-shutdown-hours-away\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chamber couldn&#8217;t agree on scheduling a vote, let alone passing legislation to keep the government open Here&#8217;s how grim things looked in the Senate as the countdown continued toward a shutdown at midnight Friday: The chamber struggled to even schedule a vote to fund the government, let alone cobble together the votes to actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}