Both chambers of Congress plan to vote on a border deal that will avert a partial government shutdown on Thursday.
The planned vote would get the legislation to President Trump’s desk before the funding for the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies expires on Saturday.
The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation first, and then the House.
The deal — which provides $1.375 billion in border wall funding, well below the $5.7 billion Trump was demanding — was unveiled by a bipartisan, bicameral group of negotiators on Monday. The legislation text itself was only made public Wednesday evening.
Trump has not made a firm commitment to signing the bill. But his allies in Congress expect that he will sign it as long as the legislative text lives up to how the Republican negotiators were describing the agreement earlier in the week.
If the bill is so ‘bi-partisan’ then the Senate needs 67 brave soles (and yes, I did that deliberately) to agree…then it won’t matter about Donnie and his veiled threats.
“Trump has not made a firm commitment to signing the bill.”
He’s still waiting for Hannity/Ingram/Putin to give him permission…
I think Trump’s gonna reject the deal just to blast the McCabe 60 Minutes story out of the news cycle.
Nah, he can do that by declaring a state of emergency or signing an executive order to redirect funds to wall-building. He’ll sign.
Maybe it’s begun to dawn on him that he’s successfully negotiated $25 billion down to $1.375 billion, and further negotiations will very likely get him $0 billion. So much winning.