Day One of Senate Democrats’ Government Shutdown
January 20, 2018
‘The House of Representatives, the president, and a bipartisan majority of Republican and Democratic Senators all agreed on a compromise bill that would have prevented a shutdown. It would enable Congress to do the common sense thing: Keep negotiating other issues while also providing for our troops, our veterans, and millions of vulnerable Americans. But the Democratic Leader chose to filibuster that bipartisan bill. So here we are.’