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"The stakes are too high to put politics before people: President Trump stripped protections for Dreamers and Congressional Republicans have not prioritized Children's Health insurance. Oregon's families and Dreamers deserve certainty, not partisanship," she said.
The shutdown could be short-lived. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed early Saturday to keep the Senate in session, and the House was scheduled to reconvene at 9 a.m. Saturday to be ready to vote on whatever the Senate may pass.
The U.S. government shutdown began at midnight Friday as Democrats and Republicans failed to resolve a standoff over immigration and spending. Here's a look at what the parties are fighting over and what it means to shut down the government.
Michigan Republicans also responded to Friday's shutdown saying in part the shutdown leaves over 82,000 Michigan children without healthcare. The group went on to say Senator Debbie Stabenow refused to support a compromise spending bill which would have kept the federal government open until February 16. Very disappointing votes cast just now by Michigan's two senators.
The White House stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Temporary government funding runs out at midnight Friday and there's still no agreement on a temporary extension.
With hours left before a possible shutdown, President Donald Trump huddled at the White House with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday to discuss striking a deal to keep the government open. The meeting involving two New Yorkers set off alarms among congressional Republicans, who are holding firm in support of the short-term spending bill that passed the House Thursday night.
The government careened toward shutdown Friday night in a chaotic close to Donald Trump's first year as president, as Democrats and Republicans preemptively traded blame while still struggling to find some accord before a deadline at the stroke of midnight. The lawmakers and Trump's White House mounted last-ditch negotiations to stave off what had come to appear as the inevitable, with the parties in stare-down mode over federal spending and proposals to protect some 700,000 younger immigrants from deportation.
A Kentucky man accused of attacking U.S. Senator Rand Paul outside his home has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of assaulting a member of Congress, but has told investigators his action was not politically motivated, officials said on Friday. The Republican Paul's neighbor, Rene Boucher, 58, was charged with assaulting a member of Congress resulting in personal injury, which is a felony under federal law.
A neighbor of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky intends to plead guilty to a federal felony charge after he tackled the senator in November in an assault set off by the placement of a pile of brush, the man's lawyer said on Friday. The neighbor, Rene A. Boucher, 58, of Bowling Green, Ky., was charged on Friday with assaulting a member of Congress resulting in personal injury, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Josh J. Minkler, said in a news release .
Federal prosecutors told a federal judge in New Jersey on Friday that they will seek a retrial of the Democratic senator, whose 11-week corruption trial ended in a hung jury in November. The filing to the judge seeks a retrial "at the earliest possible date."
The Latest on the government's announcement that it will retry Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges : Sen. Bob Menendez, whose 11-week corruption trial ended in a hung jury in November, says he expects to be "vindicated again" in a retrial. The New Jersey Democrat put out a statement Friday after the government announced it will retry Menendez and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen on fraud and bribery counts.
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Francis is expected to meet with several thousand indigenous people... . A bishop takes a photo of an indigenous man and baby as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis in Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios province, Peru, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.
President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer met Friday afternoon in an eleventh-hour effort to avert a government shutdown, with a bitterly divided Washington locked in stare-down over fed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. walks to his vehicle following his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer met Friday afternoon in an eleventh-hour effort to avert a government shutdown, with a bitterly divided Washington locked in stare-down over federal spending and legislation to protect some 700,000 younger immigrants from deportation.
AmeriCorps VISTA members Kyllie Harris, left, and Alyss Smith weigh food donations. The chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, has resigned following controversial comments as an Internet radio host.
President Trump and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer failed to resolve the spending impasse on Friday in an extended meeting at the White House intended to see if they could avert a government shutdown. The two men promised to keep negotiating but lawmakers were lurching toward a midnight deadline with no deal in sight and no vote scheduled on a stop-gap measure to fund the government for another four weeks.
Florida Governor Rick Scott and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, announce there will be no new offshore drilling in the State of Florida. Both met at the Tallahassee International Airport, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018.
Protesting French prison guards have pushed back against riot police and shouted down the just... Investigators say they have still not determined why Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock opened fire from his high-rise hotel suite, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds. Investigators say they have still not determined why Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock opened fire from his high-rise hotel suite, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Friday as a bitterly-divided Congress hurtles toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported. WASHINGTON >> A bitterly divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, foreground, and President Donald Trump want to open huge offshore areas to oil and gas drilling. CREDIT: Paul Morigi/Getty Images Sen. Bill Nelson doesn't trust Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's pledge to remove Florida from the Trump administration's five-year offshore drilling plan.