After the Republican-led Senate failed to advance two measures to reopen shuttered agencies, Democratic and Republican lawmakers spoke on the Senate floor and urged quick passage of a three-week, stopgap funding bill to create time for talks on border security. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said such a measure would only work “if there is a large down payment on the wall” and Trump, who sparked the shutdown, now in its 34th day, with his demand for the US-Mexico border wall funding, stuck to his position after the votes in the Senate. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he had spoken to Trump about a short-term funding bill. ‘Let them eat cake?’Pelosi told reporters earlier she was willing to meet with Trump to discuss the shutdown. “Nancy just said she ‘just doesn’t understand why?’ Very simply, without a Wall it all doesn’t work.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 25, 2019 02:35 UTC