The federal government will continue to be partially shutdown for Christmas, as the Senate adjourned Saturday afternoon with no deal.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on the floor just before 3:30 p.m. that the Senate was adjourning for the day and would not return until Christmas Eve for a pro forma session at 11 a.m.
The next time the Senate will be fully in for a session will be Thursday, Dec. 27, at 4 p.m.
"As I said earlier today when we opened, I'm glad that productive discussions are continuing," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "When these negotiations produce a solution that is acceptable to all parties, which means 60 votes in the Senate, a majority in the House, and a presidential signature, at that point we will take it up on the Senate floor. Senators will be notified when a vote is scheduled, and in the meantime, the discussions and negotiations continue." More than 420,000 federal workers who are considered essential work without pay
during the shutdown.
Those employees will eventually receive pack pay. Another 380,000
government employees are be furloughed and home without pay. The shutdown went into effect at midnight Friday after the
Senate could not pass legislation that included a $5 billion for a
U.S.-Mexico border wall...
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