Breaking news out of Washington, D.C.:
JUST IN: Democrats have enough votes to block the spending bill in the Senate and prevent Republicans from keeping the government up and running, senior Democratic aide tells @NBCNews
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) January 18, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: Senate Democrats say they have votes to block government funding bill Read more: https://t.co/21Ud32zfq8 pic.twitter.com/8Vk0FxI1Sf
— POLITICO (@politico) January 18, 2018
More from Politico:
The possibility of a government shutdown grew dramatically Thursday as House and Senate GOP leaders struggled to round up the votes to keep the government open past midnight Friday.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) predicted that the House would pass a short-term funding measure on Thursday night. GOP leaders are gambling that rank-and-file Republicans won’t want to risk being blamed for a shutdown and will end up supporting the short-term spending bill, which would keep the government open until Feb. 16.
But on the other side of the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to have a serious problem.Senate Democrats said they’re confident they have the votes to block the stop-gap spending bill that the House is taking up, according to two Democratic senators and a senior party aide. And top Senate Republicans are openly worried about the situation as they struggle to keep their own members in the fold.
Oh, my!
So… it'd be Democrats shutting down the government? https://t.co/WoBR8BLfaQ
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/storm_paglia/status/954090393636868096
So Democrats are shutting down government. https://t.co/Vprf4CToo9
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 18, 2018
DEMS ARE SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVT
??????? https://t.co/nW2NGwXf0h— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 18, 2018
Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats flexing their power and shutting the govt down! My God
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 18, 2018
God help us #DemsGovtShutdown is coming
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 18, 2018
Sounds like we’ve got a hostage situation.
* Looks at notes
Hostage taking suicide bombers with a gun to the heads of the American people. https://t.co/GloWpM2H6j— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/Rschrim/status/954089672245903364
https://twitter.com/harperreginald1/status/954090025796456448
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/954091183487311877
That’s just criminal.
I didn't think Dems could blow the shutdown being blamed on Rs but now I'm not so sure
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/MarkRubello/status/954084732886765570
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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