Senate eyes stopgap bill as rival plans to end US shutdown fail
2019-01-25 10:24:34 source：The Aljazeera
January 25, 2019
Politicians in the United States have discussed a temporary funding proposal aimed at ending a record-long partial federal government shutdown, after two competing measures to terminate the impasse fell short in the Senate.
A bill backed by Republican President Donald Trump to end the shutdown by funding a US-Mexico border wall, and a separate measure supported by Democrats to reopen shuttered agencies without such funding did not get the votes on Thursday required to advance in the 100-member chamber.
The shutdown, now in its 34th day, was triggered last month by Trump by demanding $5.7bn for the wall as part of any legislation to fund about a quarter of the government.
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