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McConnell to call for vote on Trump’s protection of ‘Dreamers’
By Mark Moore
January 20, 2019 | 5:32pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will call for a vote on President Trump’s offer to protect certain immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion for his wall, but he will combine the proposal with legislation passed by House Democrats to fund closed government agencies, a report on Sunday said.
“The legislation that the majority leader will bring to the floor this week would both reopen the remaining portions of the government, fund disaster relief, fund border security and address immigration issues that both Republicans and Democrats would like to address — all in one bill,†Don Stewart, McConnell’s deputy chief of staff, told the New York Times in an interview.
McConnell aims to put pressure on Democrats who have said they will not negotiate with Trump on his wall until the government reopens.
Stewart said the legislative package would include seven appropriation bills that would fund agencies that have been closed for 30 days.
He said McConnell hopes to see the package passed by Friday so that the government could reopen and federal workers could get a scheduled paycheck.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/20/mcconnell-to-call-for-vote-on-trumps-protection-of-dreamers/
