Government Shutdown: Republicans Democrats Trade Blame As Senate Misses Midnight Deadline : NPR
On Saturday morning  President Trump responded on Twitter  accusing Democrats of playing "Shutdown politics."
The apparent congressional paralysis risked overshadowing the first anniversary of  President Trump 's inauguration and capped off a year defined at times by chaos and frustration from both the White House and congressional Republicans despite their unified control of Washington.
But Democrats and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer  D-N.Y.  pushed to include an immigration measure that would include a pathway to citizenship for roughly 700 000 immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program the  Trump  administration rescinded last year. Democrats wanted a pathway to citizenship for those roughly 700 000 immigrants who were in the country illegally after being brought here as children.
 Trump  has canceled plans to travel to  his  Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend  where  he  was set to have a gala fundraiser Saturday to commemorate  his  inauguration one year ago.
Just after midnight   McConnell  took the Senate floor to put fault on Democrats for not backing the House bill and averting a shutdown.
However  the hashtag #TrumpShutdown was also trending on Twitter late Friday night  and Democrats believe that it's Republicans who will end up shouldering the majority of blame from the public given the GOP controls both Congress and the White House.
 Trump  appeared to complicate efforts to reach a compromise over the past weeks  at first signaling  he  would sign any immigration deal but then rejecting a bipartisan proposal  bending to  his  conservative  hardline base and insisting any deal had to have funding for  his  trademark border wall. And negotiations further stalled after  Trump  reportedly used a vulgarity in questioning why the U.S. should welcome immigrants from Africa instead of places like Norway. ( Trump  has denied that  he  used that language.)
Schumer took to the Senate floor immediately after McConnell early Saturday and said that when he met with  Trump  at the White House Friday  he had even put the border wall on the negotiating table in order to reach a compromise on DACA. But "even that was not enough to entice the president to finish the deal " Schumer said  accusing  Trump  and Republicans of "rooting for a shutdown" which would "crash entirely" on the president's shoulders.
Polling released Friday from both Washington Post/ABC News and CNN found that most Americans would blame  Trump  and Republicans over Democrats in the event a shutdown occurred. However  CNN also found a majority said approving a budget deal was more important than finding a way to advance DACA.
On Saturday morning   [TGT]  responded on Twitter  accusing Democrats of playing "Shutdown politics."
The apparent congressional paralysis risked overshadowing the first anniversary of  President Trump 's inauguration and capped off a year defined at times by chaos and frustration from both the White House and congressional Republicans despite their unified control of Washington.
But Democrats and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer  D-N.Y.  pushed to include an immigration measure that would include a pathway to citizenship for roughly 700 000 immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program the   [TGT]   administration rescinded last year. Democrats wanted a pathway to citizenship for those roughly 700 000 immigrants who were in the country illegally after being brought here as children.
  [TGT] has canceled plans to travel to   [TGT]   Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend  where   [TGT]   was set to have a gala fundraiser Saturday to commemorate   [TGT]   inauguration one year ago.
Just after midnight   McConnell  took the Senate floor to put fault on Democrats for not backing the House bill and averting a shutdown.
However  the hashtag #TrumpShutdown was also trending on Twitter late Friday night  and Democrats believe that it's Republicans who will end up shouldering the majority of blame from the public given the GOP controls both Congress and the White House.
  [TGT] appeared to complicate efforts to reach a compromise over the past weeks  at first signaling   [TGT]   would sign any immigration deal but then rejecting a bipartisan proposal  bending to   [TGT]   conservative  hardline base and insisting any deal had to have funding for   [TGT]   trademark border wall. And negotiations further stalled after   [TGT]   reportedly used a vulgarity in questioning why the U.S. should welcome immigrants from Africa instead of places like Norway. (  [TGT] has denied that   [TGT]   used that language.)
Schumer took to the Senate floor immediately after McConnell early Saturday and said that when he met with  Trump  at the White House Friday  he had even put the border wall on the negotiating table in order to reach a compromise on DACA. But "even that was not enough to entice the president to finish the deal " Schumer said  accusing   [TGT] and Republicans of "rooting for a shutdown" which would "crash entirely" on the president's shoulders.
Polling released Friday from both Washington Post/ABC News and CNN found that most Americans would blame   [TGT] and Republicans over Democrats in the event a shutdown occurred. However  CNN also found a majority said approving a budget deal was more important than finding a way to advance DACA.