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Igor Bobic
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Senate Republicans say they have no intention of trying to override a presidential veto on a funding bill without wall money.

"I would never vote to override a veto on something that the president didn’t think was the best approach,” Tillis said
huffingtonpost.com/entry/republic…
Blunt says prospect of 20 Rs joining all Ds in overriding Trump over the wall would "never happen."

Leahy says "every Republican will tell you that privately" a clean funding bill could get 67 votes huffingtonpost.com/entry/republic…
McConnell is refusing to put a bill on the floor unless it has Trump's support.

“That's not how the Constitution works. The Constitution doesn’t make Congress subservient to the president," Murphy said. huffingtonpost.com/entry/republic…
Also, @ArthurDelaneyHP and I found a way to include Tillis' cute new puppy into this story huffingtonpost.com/entry/republic…
Also! Remember the CR that passed in the Senate in December by voice vote, seemingly unanimously? Jerry Moran says he was one of two senators who voted "no" on the floor. But he never asked the chair for a recorded vote, so it passed easily huffingtonpost.com/entry/republic…
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1. The shutdown is billed as a battle of wills between Schumer/Pelosi & Trump.

This is the wrong way to look at it. Schumer/Pelosi don’t want to fund the wall but even if they did, they would be hard pressed to corral the necessary Democratic votes.

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