the republican side will be joined by three more. without a spending deal, the government will shut down friday at midnight. without a daca deal, 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers face possible deportation after march 5th thanks to president trump s decision to end daca. today, capitol police arrested 82 people seeking to prevent the deportations in the rotunda of the russell senate office building. republicans want to pass a short-term bill to fund the government without any protections for those 800,000 people. many democrats are refusing to play along unless the d.r.e.a.m.ers are protected. the overwhelming number in our caucus have said they don t like this deal and they believe if we kick account can down the road this time, we ll be back where we started from next time. so there s very, very strong support not to go along with their deal. for his part, president trump is attempting to place the blame for the possible shutdown on anyone but himself. today he described the
plowing forward without the president today introducing the bipartisan bill that the president himself rejected. this agreement gives president trump every single penny that he asked for. for border security in his budget request. almost $1.6 billion for construction on the border. of barriers and all sorts of fences and whatever else is needed even walls. this was not easy. we came to this agreement and we sent it over and had it drafted. it will be introduced this afternoon. the original three sponsors on the republican side will be joined by three more. without a spending deal, the government will shut down friday at midnight. without a daca deal, 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers face possible deportation after march 5th thanks to president trump s decision to end daca. today, capitol police arrested 82 people seeking to prevent the deportations in the rotunda of