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For 34 days, Donald Trump has held the paychecks of 800,000 federal workers & even more contractors hostage, leaving families across our country in a terrible situation. Today, the Senate finally had a chance to end this unnecessary shutdown & let the government get back to work.
Unfortunately many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who previously supported this Republican-authored legislation flipped their votes to side with Trump and keep the government shut down.
A wall is the most expensive and least effective way to secure our border, and Donald Trump needs to drop his ridiculous demands, remember that he promised to make Mexico pay for his needless wall and let us end this shutdown immediately. duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
