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January 22, 2018 at 08:01 AM
The Senate passed by a 81-18 vote on Monday afternoon a continuing resolution to fund the government until Feb. 8, halting the third day of a government shutdown.
“In a few hours, the government will reopen,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., minutes before the Senate vote on the CR. “We have a lot to do,” Schumer added, noting that a budget remained outstanding as well as an agreement on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and on opioid funding.
Schumer said if an agreement on DACA was not reached by Feb. 8, the Senate would move to consider legislation dealing with DACA, a program that protects from deportation immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children.
The CR passed by the Senate also places another deadline on the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, and does not offer permanent funding.
Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., blamed Senate Democrats Monday morning for the shutdown that caused as many as 800,000 federal employees to be furloughed.
Greg Valliere, chief global strategist for Horizon Investments, noted in his Monday morning Capitol Notes commentary that another crisis looms as Feb. 8 approaches “because the divisions over immigration are enormous.”
