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Lee also a "no". Cruz hasn't voted yet and you wonder if he wants to vote "no" too. McConnell probably pushing to keep the yeas at >=50.
Cruz voted "aye", so Cotton and Lee were the only GOP nos. Manchin the only Democratic yes. So the Trump compromise (or "compromise" if you prefer) fails 51-47 (needed 60 votes).
Who could have predicted that Jared Kushner's plan wouldn't work, except literally everybody who isn't Jared Kushner or Mike Pence. bit.ly/2sItRBQ 
The Democratic bill to re-open the government has 6 GOP yeas. (Alexander, Gardner, Isakson, Murkowski, Collins, Romney). So looks like it will get 52 votes beating the GOP bill, which apparently got 50 rather than 51 on the final tally. Neither one will get 60.
This really makes it look like a clean CR is the path of least resistance, rather than the compromise/"compromise". Not really sure what McConnell was hoping to accomplish here, unless he wants Trump to give up.
