Sides see that there respect the votes for the president s proposal in the current form and there are not the votes to reopen the government in its current form. We knew that. By returning to washington to see those two bills taken up and fail, now puts us in a place where our leaders need to talk directly. The president s plan did not have the support of republicans mike lee or tom cotton and separately six other republicans broke with their Party Leaders to support the democratic plan, which doesnt have any new border wall money or protections for dreamers brought to the country illegally. Lamar alexander, lisa murkowski, Susan Collins and mitt romney voted to fund the government for two weeks. But the plan was no good because they know President Trump will not sign it. You can try to teach a goat how to climb a tree but youre better off hiring a squirrel in the first place. The trump proposal will security the border and get government open and the schumer proposal will do neither.