WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is planning to bring legislation to the floor this week that would reopen the government and could be the first glimmer of a compromise between Democrats and Republicans over funding the full government.
The chamber will hold two votes Jan. 24, one based on a House-passed resolution to temporarily fund the government. The other is modeled off President Donald Trump’s proposal, announced Jan. 19, that includes $5.7 billion for a border wall and would allow 700,000 Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and more than 300,000 of those with temporary protected status to stay in the country legally for another three years, “so that Congress can work on a larger immigration deal, which everybody wants,” Trump said in his unveiling of the proposal.
