44 GOP senators vote to keep government shut to make Trump happy

By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2019

Republicans showed yet again that they care more about their allegiance to Trump than the good of the American people.

Senate Republicans voted Thursday to continue Trump’s shutdown unless he gets billions of dollars to build a wall. In a series of votes, Republicans proved once again that they are more loyal to the racist whims of Trump than to the American people.

For the first time since Trump initiated the current government shutdown, the Senate held votes to reopen the government.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) first scheduled a vote on a virulently anti-immigrant proposal cooked up by the White House. The bill would give Trump $5.7 billion for his unpopular border wall, and would also add horrendous, draconian restrictions to current asylum laws. As expected, that vote failed 50-47, needing 60 votes to move forward.

Next, McConnell finally relented and allowed a vote on a clean funding bill that had already passed the House of Representatives. Given that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said time and again that the House will not support funding for an unpopular and unnecessary border wall, this was the only bill that could end the Trump shutdown.

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This is just amazing..................and these 44 have power to just screw with people for 2/6 years, and the ones that voted with the Democratic caucus,ihas a hedge fund asshole that guts jobs, that didn't get a job in the traitors administration.................and the other one from the state of Utah did, or just doesn't give a shit.....................