WHIP COUNT: Senate vote on shutdown looks to be tight

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

It’s far from clear that a House GOP plan to fund the government can get through the Senate ahead of a possible shutdown on Saturday

Two GOP senators say they’ll vote no on the proposal, and the number of Democrats saying they’ll vote no has been rising by the hour.

Eighteen Democrats, including Independent Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), supported a stopgap measure in December, but many of those members say they’ll oppose the new stopgap, which would fund the government into February.


The main issue is the fact that the bill is silent on providing shelter to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants protected from deportation by an Obama-era program that President Trump is ending.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/369525-whip-count-senate-vote-on-shutdown-looks-to-be-tight

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Republicans have created this mess since 2010, they own this mess, and there sexual predator president owns them now...............



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[groundloop]

1. Good, make it painful for them. Play hardball, extract as many concessions as we can.

[greymattermom]

2. but are concessions real?

Won't they promise concessions, then not deliver them? How can Dems believe anything they promise?

[louis c]

5. The concessions are in the bill.

[bluestarone]

4. this

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Kick

[Hortensis]

6. Ryan may have votes to pass a CR and punt the budget

a fourth time -- by promising the Koch's Freedom Caucus to "vote soon on a proposal that would lift statutory budget caps on defense programs only," (transferring more tax dollars to donors in the defense industry while posturing as protectors of their constituents).

If the house presents a CR tonight McConnell is believed to not have the votes to pass one tonight, but since I go to bed early I'll miss any blow-by-blow here. Fingers crossed for decency.