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Feb. 9, 2018WASHINGTON, D.C. |
By: Pinney
Second US government shutdown this year lasts only 6 hours
For the second time this year, the US Federal Government shut down after a spending deal could not be reached in the Senate. This time, Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, held the floor for several hours to block a vote on the measure because of the broad spending the plan includes.
The shutdown lasted only six hours, as the plan finally passed in the Senate and the government reopened. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Kansas City, says the plan brings many benefits to Missourians. The bill funds the government until 2020, but includes no provisions on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which had been a point of contention in the last government shutdown in January.
