President Donald Trump on Oct. 20 said he was optimistic that lawmakers from the Democratic Party would soon vote on a measure to reopen the government, three weeks after the shutdown began.
“We’re hoping … that we will get the vote pretty soon. And I hear they’re starting to feel that way, too,” Trump said at the White House. “They’re starting to feel like they really have to do what’s right for the country, and they will.”
The shutdown was initiated on Oct. 1 after members of Congress could not agree in time to pass a stopgap measure.
Democrats, a minority in Congress, said that any measure ending the shutdown needs to contain protections on health care, including an extension of health insurance subsidies that are due to expire at the end of the year, while Republicans have said that the two issues should be considered separately….