Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told Vice President Mike Pence on Friday that there’s no chance the Senate will approve any wall funding in a bill to keep the government open past midnight.
“Leader Schumer reminded them that any proposal with funding for the wall will not pass the Senate and that two proposals that Leader [Nancy] Pelosi and he offered the president in the Oval Office last week are both still on the table,” said a spokesman for the New York Senator. “As is Leader [Mitch] McConnell’s proposal that the Senate unanimously passed two nights and could pass the House and avoid a shutdown if the President signaled he would sign it.”
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