Both houses adjourn without acting to end closure, as Democrats prepare to assume control of Congress next week
A partial government shutdown caused by an impasse over Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the Mexican border will continue into 2019 after both chambers of Congress adjourned on Thursday without acting to end the closure.
There had been a narrow chance that the House would convene on Thursday afternoon and vote on a deal to end the shutdown. But no headway was made, and Trump remained insistent that the shutdown would continue until Congress supplies billions for the border wall, which he says will help tackle illegal immigration.
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