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\nThe US government was partially shutdown on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump\u2019s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n
After failing to strike a budget deal on Friday, congressional leaders and the White House pledged to keep talking through the weekend in search of a deal to end the shutdown ahead of the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n
The impasse came after Trump threw a wrench into the works earlier in the week by refusing to agree to a short-term funding deal cut by Democratic and Republican senators because it did not include the $5 billion for his border wall.<\/p>\n
The US House of Representatives, where Republicans have a majority until Democrats take over on January 3, then passed a Bill that included the $5 billion, but it ran aground in the Senate and the shutdown began at midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n
After it became clear the House Bill lacked the votes to pass, Senate leaders huddled with Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials to try to figure out a path forward. They failed and lawmakers in both houses of Congress were sent home.<\/p>\n
Democrats repeatedly reminded Trump, and voters, that he said last week he would be \u201cproud\u201d to shut the government down in order to get wall funding. \u201cPresident Trump has thrown a temper tantrum and now has us careening towards a \u2018Trump shutdown\u2019 over Christmas,\u201d Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Friday.<\/p>\n
For the shutdown to end, both the House and the Senate will have to approve any deal negotiated between Trump\u2019s team and Republican and Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n
The shutdown could persist at least until a new Congress convenes on January 3, and Democrats take control of the House from Republicans. That does not necessarily mean, however, that Trump would agree to a compromise.<\/p>\n
In a joint statement on Saturday, Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said that if the shutdown continues, the new House Democratic majority will quickly pass legislation to re-open government when it takes office in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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