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Senate moves forward on funding bill including border wall money; Pence breaks tie
Vice President Mike Pence broke the tie in a nail-biting US Senate vote to move ahead with the spending bill funding the border wall. Impasse between Democrats and President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the government.
The vote stayed open for over five hours on Friday as senators rushed back to Washington, DC to voice their opinion on the measure passed in the House of Representatives on Thursday, allocating $5.7 billion to fund the border wall. Democrats, however, remain opposed to any funding for Trump’s wall proposal, now or ever.
“The wall does not have 60 votes, let alone 50 votes,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on the floor after the vote.
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