On Thursday, Democrats revealed that they had the votes to shut down the government in the Senate, according to NBC News. Republicans, who have a Senate majority, are short of the votes necessary to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government thanks to the filibuster possibility held by Democrats; Democrats have stated their willingness to vote against such funding in order to leverage Republicans into passing a legislative version of President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive amnesty.
According to NBC Politics:
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