Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb issued the following statement after the White House and lawmakers reached a deal to end the federal government shutdown for three weeks until a permanent solution can be reached.
“While it’s encouraging news — and the details are still being worked out — this shutdown should never have happened in the first place,” Kleeb said. “The president’s temper tantrum over his insistence on wasting billions of dollars on a ridiculous wall was reckless, hurt working families, disrupted lives and threatened our safety. The president cannot hope to govern by acting like a two-year-old, and the GOP-controlled Senate — including Sens. Sasse and Fischer — should never have stood for it.”
The Senate on Thursday blocked Trump’s proposal 提供$T57亿的边境墙钱，并为一些无证件移民提供临时保护，以换取政府的重新开放。
该法案以50票对47票失败，需要达到60票的门槛。参议院还拒绝了民主党支持的一项法案，直到2月8日为政府提供资金，该法案不会为特朗普的边界墙提供资金。参议院否决了第52-44号法案，尽管该法案在12月批准了类似的立法。
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