House Votes to End Shutdown Amid Trump Veto Threat Over Wall
- New Democratic majority backs spending bills; GOP opposes them
- Meadows says the impasse in Congress is ‘real and it is deep’
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The new House Democratic majority voted Thursday to end the partial government shutdown but brought Congress no closer to resolving the impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand to pay for a border wall.
The president and Senate Republicans oppose the Democrats’ plan, and the next effort to reopen the closed agencies will come when leaders of both parties meet with Trump at the White House Friday morning.