High noon vote on McConnell spending deal to reopen government
by Susan Ferrechio | Jan 21, 2018, 9:30 PM
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has set a Monday noon vote on a federal spending bill that would reopen the partially shuttered government until Feb. 8 in exchange for a promise for a vote on immigration reform legislation next month.
McConnell offered the deal on the Senate floor at 9:30 p.m. and then asked for Democratic consent to vote on the spending bill at 10 p.m.
Democrats objected, and McConnell then moved the vote, which could have come as early as 1 a.m. Monday to noon. Monday will be the third day of the partial shutdown, but the first business day that government workers will be affected.
The change in timing away from the middle of the night will put addition pressure on Democrats to vote in favor of the bill. But they aren't giving in yet.
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