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- ABC News
- January 24, 2019
Competing bills to end shutdown fail in Senate
Both bills failed to get enough bipartisan support to advance.
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....alternative venue for the SOTU Address because there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber. I look forward to giving a “great” State of the Union Address in the near future!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
The back-and-forth between the president and the House speaker continued Thursday as Pelosi held a news conference urging the Senate to pass a bill ending the shutdown. As she spoke to reporters, the president tweeted out a promise not to \"cave\" until he gets a border wall.
Nancy just said she “just doesn’t understand why?” Very simply, without a Wall it all doesn’t work. Our Country has a chance to greatly reduce Crime, Human Trafficking, Gangs and Drugs. Should have been done for decades. We will not Cave!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
The president, however, appeared to be responding to Pelosi's comments not about her views on the shutdown but quoting Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who said in an interview he didn't \"understand\" why federal workers were going to food banks instead of taking out loans. Ross was promptly criticized for downplaying the effects of the partial shutdown on individual workers.
About a quarter of the government remains unfunded including the Department of Homeland Security, prompting a letter from five former secretaries of the department -- including Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly.
DHS should be no different from the Department of Defense, the former secretaries wrote, which is funded in the shutdown and which is similarly important to defending national security. The secretaries also wrote that the shutdown was tempting talented employees to turn to the private sector -- a problem that grows with each week the shutdown persists.
\"High-tech skills – such as information technology and cybersecurity - and law enforcement and security experience are in great demand in the private sector and the Department is facing a real crisis in retaining this workforce week after week,\" wrote former DHS Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, Janet Napolitano, Jeh Johnson and Kelly.
The IRS, also not funded during the shutdown, is also facing difficulties among the legions of employees who are working without pay -- now 46,000 of them after a recent recall in attempt to mitigate the impact of the shutdown, especially ahead of pressure to process tax returns.
IRS employees have begun claiming they can't fulfill the request to come back to work for the upcoming tax season because of financial hardship, a major federal employees' union said Wednesday. The move could slow down the agency's ability to issue tax returns and also ratchet up pressure on Trump and Congress to push through budget talks.
On Friday, many federal workers will miss their second paycheck because of the shutdown. More federal workers will miss a second paycheck on Monday, and by Tuesday, all 800,000 federal workers impacted by the partial shutdown will have missed a second straight paycheck. About a half-a-million of these federal employees are working despite missing pay.
The current shutdown is the longest in U.S. history, surpassing a 21-day shutdown that ended in 1996.
ABC News' Alexander Mallin, Mariam Khan, Trish Turner, John Parkinson, Anne Flaherty, Stephanie Ebbs, Quinn Owen and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
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