Trump offers to take 'prorated down payment' on his border wall after Republican-backed bill fails in Senate
President Donald Trump's proposed bill to reopen the government failed in the US Senate as the government entered its 34th day of a partial government shutdown on Thursday. Despite the failure of the bill, the Republican, however, maintained that he "won" the vote in the Cabinet Room. Reports state that the president's bill did not reach a 60-vote threshold required to overcome a filibuster.
The partial shutdown was triggered over the president's demand for border wall funding. The shutdown was imposed last month on December 22 after Democrats refused to allow $5.7 billion to be put in the Congressional budget for Trump's controversial wall along the southern US-Mexico Mexico border. The Democrats, who do not appear to budge on negotiations regarding the funding, have described the wall as "costly and immoral."