Still no shutdown deal: House, Senate to vote on dueling border security proposals this week
by Susan Ferrechio
| January 22, 2019 09:41 AM
The Republican-run Senate this week will call up President Trump’s proposal to end the government funding standoff with a deal trading border wall money for an extension of legal protections for Dreamers.
But Democrats who run the House have already rejected Trump’s plan, and will instead take up a series of border security measures and government funding legislation that don’t include any money for a border wall.
Congress will take up these dueling approaches while a partial government shutdown, caused by the border wall fight, enters a second month.
House Democrats are expected to introduce their border security measures after they return Tuesday afternoon. They’ve already scheduled more votes this week on government spending bills that also exclude wall funding.
The Senate, meanwhile, introduced Trump’s compromise proposal Monday and plans to vote on it later this week.
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