WASHINGTON: Democratic leaders in Congress declared victory Friday in a successful negotiation to re
WASHINGTON: Democratic leaders in Congress declared victory Friday in a successful negotiation to reopen the US government after a record five-week closure — and took the opportunity to chide President Donald Trump for taking so long to reach a deal.
“Hopefully now the president has learned his lesson,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters shortly after Trump announced a deal that would temporarily reopen shuttered federal agencies, but does not include funds for the president’s long-requested border wall.
The partial government shutdown, the longest in American history, “will finally end today,” Schumer said, after the Senate and House quickly pass the legislation and send it to the president’s desk for his signature.
