Trump says he has signed budget bill

The effects from the overnight shutdown were expected to be minimal.

If the measure passes in the wee hours of the morning, the government would open in the morning on schedule. Those conservatives were mainly angry about non-military spending increases.

The 240-186 vote came in the pre-dawn hours, putting to bed a five-and-a-half hour federal freeze – the second such shutdown in three weeks.

What does a government shutdown cost?

Asked if he was optimistic that a DACA deal could pass the Senate, the House, and be signed into law by Trump in time for the March 5 deadline, Durbin said that he was being realistic.

It would only keep the government running for six weeks, while Congress tries again to put together a budget deal that would not end until September 30, the end of the fiscal year.

Paul took to the Senate floor several times Thursday and refused to agree to move up the time for a vote on the bill, which required unanimous consent from all senators. The previous one had occurred in 2013 and lasted 16 days. Lawmakers have wrangled over the spending plan and other political demands from either side.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set next Monday as the start of a free-wheeling immigration battle, a debate he promised when Democrats agreed to vote to reopen the government last month.

US stocks opened sharply higher early on Friday morning even as several indexes remained on course for a steep weekly loss.

“Republican majorities in the House and Senate have turned the process into an embarrassing spectacle, running from one crisis directly into the next”, Democratic Representative Nita Lowey said before the House vote.

“I didn’t come up here to be part of somebody’s club”, Mr Paul said. In his attempt to sway Paul to relent, Texas Senator John Cornyn declared his fellow Republican was “wasting everyone’s time” and prompting a shutdown for “no good reason”.

But why are the ” budget hawks ” opposed to the plan?

It also would increase the government’s debt cap, preventing a first-ever default on U.S. obligations.

“I want people to feel uncomfortable, I want them to respond to people who say: How is it that you were against President Obama’s deficits and are now in favor of Republican deficits?”

“Now we have Republicans, hand in hand with Democrats, offering us trillion-dollar deficits”.

Paul had said on the Senate floor late Thursday, “I can’t in all good honesty, in all good faith, just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits”.

On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Schumer called the budget agreement “a true bipartisan breakthrough”. He complained the new budget accord would drive up federal deficits – but didn’t mention that he backed a $1.5 trillion tax bill in December that added red ink that was multiples larger than this week’s spending agreement.

In the end, however, Democrats declined to hold the spending bill hostage over immigration.

Why some Democrats are not happy?

The Budget Control Act, passed in 2011, sought to curb government spending and control the growth of federal programs.

Democrats failed to win any immigration commitment from Ryan, but after the shutdown Pelosi said in a statement “the fight in the House to protect Dreamers is not over”.

Once known as the party of fiscal conservatism, the Republicans and Trump are quickly expanding the nation’s budget deficit and its $20-trillion USA national debt. “Right now, we are being called upon to protect them from deportation and we must answer that call”, Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez of IL said.

“Don’t collude with this administration”, he said.

The brief shutdown likely won’t register for most people.

Employees deemed essential – including military personnel and air traffic controllers – are required to work regardless of shutdowns. Until then, while each party claims victories and points fingers, the public sees a dysfunctional Congress plagued by partisanship.