Government Shutdown Looms as House Moves Toward Budget Vote<br />Mr. Ryan said he had spoken to Mr. Trump earlier in the morning and<br />that the president “fully supports passing what we’re bringing to the floor today.”<br />Even if the House manages to pass the bill, the Senate would still need to give its approval in order to avert a shutdown early Saturday morning, and Democrats would be needed for passage given<br />that the spending bill requires 60 votes in the Senate.<br />Mr. Tester, who is up for re-election this year in a state<br />that Mr. Trump won by 20 percentage points, said that a stopgap bill that included CHIP funding but left other issues unresolved was “not what we’re looking for.”<br />Democrats have been under heavy pressure to oppose any spending bill<br />that does not protect the young immigrants, known as Dreamers, who are now shielded from deportation from an Obama-era initiative, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that Mr. Trump moved in September to end<br />Republican leaders had spent Wednesday pressuring Democrats to vote for the spending bill, arguing<br />that opposing it would effectively block a six-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which they had included in the spending bill.<br />WASHINGTON — Congress stumbled toward a government shutdown this weekend as the House planned a showdown<br />vote Thursday evening on a stopgap spending bill that Senate Democrats appear poised to block.<br />For the stopgap bill to succeed in the Senate, Republican leaders need at least nine Democrats<br />— probably more, given several expected Republican defections — to support it.
