hour after leadership announced they didn't have the votes to pass the $5 billion border wall and they said they were going t take any votes at all until leaders worked something out. any changes they made to the bill would have to be approved by the house, but the house saw the writing on the wall. the last leader on the hill tonight holding official meetings was actually the vice president mike pence hewitt tried to squeeze is much border wall money as possible out of senate lawmakers, but he left about an hour ago never indicating what the white house is offering in a deal or what they might give up. he had to break a 47-47 type earlier today to order to debat on the order wall money. that boat today was kept open for hours because lawmakers needed to fly back from home where they headed after catchin as spending bill that didn't have any border wall money and many of them were already on their way back home to their