Republicans, Democrats reach pact to avert shutdown over wall funding

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Republicans, Democrats reach pact to avert shutdown over wall funding

Wednesday, 13 February 2019 | PTI | Washington

Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement in principle to fund the US Government and avert another partial Government shutdown at the end of the week while denying President Donald Trump much of the money he has sought to build walls along the US-Mexico border.

The announcement by lawmakers on Monday night came days ahead of a possible government shutdown in the absence of such an agreement.

Senate and House negotiators from both parties, who held a closed-door meeting in Washington, did not comment on the details of the deal, saying the staff is still working on last-minute logistics.

Sharp differences between Democrats and President Trump over border security and building a wall along the US-Mexico border resulted in a record partial government shutdown for more than 30 days.

“We’ve had a good evening. We’ve reached an agreement in principle between us on the Homeland Security and the other six bills,” Senator Richard Shelby told reporters at the US Capitol Hill Monday night.

As a result, the House and the Senate are likely to pass a new resolution before the February 15 deadline.

According to reports, the bill would provide $1.375 billion for wall construction, far less than $5.7 billion congressional funding Trump has demanded to build the wall.

But, if accepted, the deal would end a standoff in which Trump has threatened to cut budgets from swaths of Government this Friday.

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