Advertisement“The Senate Democrats have foisted upon this appropriations process their radical crazy agenda,” Johnson claimed. AdvertisementThe Senate vote followed Trump’s announcement Thursday that he would order Transportation Security Administration officers to be paid regardless of what happened in Congress. “Given the staunch opposition from Senate Democrats, the clearest path to ending this harmful shutdown is for the House to adopt what the Senate just overwhelmingly approved,” a Senate GOP aide said. AdvertisementWhen a reporter pointed out how Johnson’s refusal to allow a House vote on the Senate plan would prolong the shutdown, he insisted it wouldn’t. tore into Republicans for unnecessarily dragging out the DHS shutdown.
