Where were the smiles from Democrats as they announced the agreement?
The Senate on Monday voted 81-18 to break a Democratic filibuster on a government funding bill, moving forward on a stopgap funding measure for the government through Feb. 8th.
Democrats effectively backed off their opposition to funding the government, after given assurances from Republicans to address DACA in the near future.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), announced on the floor ahead of the procedural vote that an agreement had been reached.
“The Republican leader and I have come to an arrangement,” Schumer said. “We will vote today to reopen the government to continue negotiating a global agreement. With the commitment that, if an agreement isn’t reached by February the eighth, the Senate will immediately proceed to consideration of legislation dealing with DACA.”
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) told the Senate, “I think if we learned anything during this process, it’s that a strategy to shutdown the government over the issue of illegal immigration is something the American people didn’t understand – and would not have understood in the future.”