Until the president , of whom we will need his signature, and senate democrats, from whom we will need votes, reach an agreement. No procedural votes. No test votes. Just a meaningful vote on a bipartisan agreement whenever that is reached. And its not hoped that it is reached sooner rather than later. President trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. Plain and simple. The wall is President Trumps bone to the hard right people. Its no way to spend 5 billion. For a political bone. Lets get right to cnns Congressional Correspondent Phil Mattingly on capitol hill. Youre hearing that this could get worse before it gets better. Yes, fred, thats exactly right. At least this current state, there are no clear pathways out of the negotiations that have occurred behind the scenes. What im told is there has been proposaled traded back and forth from the white house to democrats and back, and at this point, they are still, what i have been told, billions of dollars ap