AP – Legislation to avoid a partial federal shutdown threatened at week’s end and keep the government running through Feb. 8 awaited a Senate vote Wednesday after President Donald Trump backed off his demand for money for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the short-term spending measure was a “simple” bill that would show Republicans, who control Congress now, will finish the year by not prolonging a potential crisis.
“Republicans will continue to fill our duty to govern,” McConnell said. He also lashed out at Democrats, who will reclaim their House majority in January, for failing to give Trump any of the $5 billion that the president wanted for the wall.
