Senate rejects two measures to end shutdown
By Jordain Carney - 01/24/19 03:37 PM EST
Senate Republicans blocked a stopgap measure to end the partial shutdown on Thursday, the second of two failed efforts to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
Senators voted 52-44 on the legislation, falling short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a filibuster.
GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah) broke rank and voted to advance the stopgap bill, which would have reopened the quarter of the government currently shuttered and funded it through Feb. 8.
The vote came after the Senate also rejected a White House-backed proposal on Thursday that would have exchanged reopening the government for $5.7 billion for the wall. It would have allowed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and some Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders to apply for a three-year extension of some legal protections, but included new restrictions on asylum seekers.
In a blow to Trump, that proposal got less support in the Senate than the stopgap measure, failing in a 50-47 vote.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426826-senate-rejects-two-measures-to-end-shutdown
