Trump to speak on shutdown, lawmakers expect him to back short-term deal
WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers are expecting President Donald Trump to back a short-term deal to reopen the government when he speaks from the Rose Garden Friday afternoon.
The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Senate would take up the legislation first.
The deal would reopen the government for three weeks and does not include money for Trump's proposed border wall. Democrats have flatly rejected funding for the wall until the government reopens
Competing measures to reopen the government failed in the Senate on Thursday, setting off a flurry of negotiations and injecting a sense of urgency into the talks that had been missing since nine federal departments closed last month. The idea of a short-term measure to reopen the government for three weeks emerged as part of those discussions.
The push to end the shutdown grew more urgent on Friday after the FAA halted flights coming into New York’s LaGuardia Airport because of staffing shortage and other delays reported at airports in Boston, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Also Friday, some 800,000 federal employees who have been on unpaid leave or working without pay missed their second paycheck since the shutdown began.
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