Friday, January 18, 2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held firm Thursday against yet another attempt by his Democrat colleagues to prematurely end the ongoing government shutdown

“Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) tried to get consent [from McConnell] to take up a House-passed bill that would reopen all agencies except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is at the center of the shutdown fight,” The Hill reported. “But McConnell objected.”