WASHINGTON — (Live video below on the Senate floor) — Senators are debating the short-term funding bill passed by the House last night. If the bill fails, it will trigger a government shutdown just before the Christmas holiday.
The Senate is being held open as more Senators fly into DC to cast their votes.
Senate leaders will announce a potential path to break border wall impasse and avoid shutdown, Sen. Corker says.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the passing of a stopgap spending bill in the United States Senate is “up to the Democrats”, adding that, should there be the partial shutdown feared by Washington, it will be a “Democrat shutdown”.
The President later touted a ‘Steel Slat Barrier’ as the shutdown vote loomed. 
Trump Speaks on Shutdown – https://t.co/uq69fFBFvl pic.twitter.com/aVutinZn8D
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If there is no spending bill in place by the midnight deadline, the U.S. government will enter a partial shutdown. On the shutdown, Trump said “the chances are probably very good” from his desk in the Oval Office.
