Schumer says funding for border wall will never pass, 'not today, not next week, not next year'
by Allison Elyse Gualtieri
| December 22, 2018 01:51 PM
Calling the partial government shutdown the result of a "two-week tantrum" by President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the funds for the border wall the president wants will never pass the Senate.
"If you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple," the New York Democrat said in his remarks on the Senate floor. The Senate opened at noon Saturday for a rare session, just days before Christmas.
His Saturday comments echoed those he made Friday to Vice President Mike Pence, one of the administration's negotiators.
Trump and Senate leaders failed to come to an agreement this week that would garner the necessary 60 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. Negotiations have stalled over $5.8 billion in funding for a border wall, which passed in the House's version of the spending bill Thursday.
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