President Trump will cancel a planned weekend in Florida and won’t leave Washington until a spending bill is passed to stop a government shutdown, White House officials said.
The Senate is scheduled to vote Friday on a stopgap spending bill ahead of a midnight deadline for a partial government shutdown, but Senate Democrats have vowed to reject the bill over their demands for amnesty for illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said his party has enough votes to sink the bill.
The president had planned to travel in the afternoon to Palm Beach, Florida, to spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago Club.
“The president will remain in D.C. until we pass a government funding measure,” a White House official said.
The House passed the stopgap bill or continuing resolution Thursday night in a near party-line vote. All but six of the chamber’s 193 Democrats voted no.
The stopgap bill keeps the government open through Feb. 16 and extends the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years. But it doesn’t include a fix to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, an Obama-era temporary amnesty set to expire in March for “Dreamers,” illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
• S.A. Miller can be reached at smiller@washingtontimes.com.
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