Government funding package bill fails to clear key procedural hurdle in the Senate

The Senate has now failed to advance a measure that would keep a good chunk of the government funded after Friday at midnight. But we do know that there is a plan B in the works. We know that Senate Democrats have been meeting with Trump's White House to try to figure out a path forward.We've heard one potential thing to do might be to move there. Remember, there are six funding bills in this package. move the five with strong bipartisan support and then just do a very shortterm bill that would just fund th ...