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With a possible government shutdown looming this weekend, the House had planned to vote late today on a stopgap spending bill that would keep government funding flowing to February 16 as delicate negotiations continue to protect young, undocumented immigrants brought illegally as children from deportation.
As Senators gathered on the floor late Thursday, a number of illegal immigrant "Dreamers" were seated in the galleries, watching the debate below.
Trump objected to a measure that would extend children's health insurance for the next six years, which had largely Democratic support but was being supported by some Republicans as a means of getting the bill passed.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said his party would accept a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open for a few days to buy time to "get the job done" in talks on immigration legislation. Republicans want to pair that issue with stronger border security and restrictions on other immigration programs.
"We should be united in trying to come to a solution, not just kick the can down the road", said Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer.
The plan, put forth by House Republicans on Tuesday, does not extinguish the suspense on Capitol Hill this week.
A one-month spending bill "is not good for the military".
"There seemed to be a consensus with the cards that we have that this is the best way to play it", North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Walker said after the meeting. Trump's historically poor popularity and a string of Democratic election victories have fueled that party's hopes of capturing control of the House and perhaps the Senate.
Republicans' goal is to force Democrats into the uncomfortable position of choosing between funding CHIP and their effort to win legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.
In the meantime, Dreamers and those who support them protested at Republican lawmakers' offices.
The Trump administration is drawing up plans to keep national parks and monuments open despite a possible shutdown as a way to blunt public anger, and while the military would not cease to operate, troops would not be paid unless Congress specifically authorizes it. "I'm just going to work and work and work to keep the government open".
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Some conservatives oppose the short-term spending bill and said GOP leaders lacked the votes to pass it. Dennise said she arrived from Mexico when she was five years old.
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Many Democrats have kept their options open in part because it was unclear if House Speaker Paul Ryan and his lieutenants would even have the votes in their Republican conference to pass a short-term spending bill out of the House as they did Thursday. Some Democrats in that chamber - especially those considering a White House run - are expected to oppose any spending measure that does not protect the young immigrants.
In the House, Republicans said now was the time for more negotiations, not a spending impasse which would close many government operations. He gave Congress until March to negotiate a replacement to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
As a result, Sen. Trump tweeted Thursday morning, referring to the federal-state Children's Health Insurance Program that serves approximately 9 million American kids. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). "The CHIP program is something I've wanted to reauthorize since September of past year".
Trump also says he doesn't want to see a government shutdown - and the shutdown deadline is fast approaching. "Last time I looked this was January", McConnell said.
Speaking for Democrats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco, signaled the gravity of the situation by speaking in the present tense about a shutdown as if one was already happening.
The solution results nearly entirely from a curious quirk in the way costs are estimated by the Congressional Budget Office - and from the unforeseen consequences of Congress' decision to eliminate a pillar of the Affordable Care Act, the penalties for people who go without health insurance.
"We always get blamed even though it's their fault", said Sen. Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) were the only two senators opposing that step.
Funds for the program lapsed at the end of September. Nevertheless, some states have informed families that their children could lose coverage because of delays and inaction by Congress.
Trump - who Schumer said "is like a Sphinx on this issue" - on Thursday added to the chaos gripping Washington, weighing in on the intense Republican maneuvering aimed at avoiding a politically embarrassing funding debacle.
Democrats weren't the only ones angry about the process. Sen.
".@realDonaldTrump created a crisis on #DACA and destroyed a bipartisan solution". But Republicans and Democrats have squabbled since last summer over how to pay for it.
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