Lauren Lantry, lauren.lantry@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump McConnell bill to fund Trump’s needless border wall failed to pass the Senate by a vote of 51-47. The bill needed 60 votes to move forward.
In response, Sierra Club Associate Legislative Director Kirin Kennedy released the following statement:
"This was a toxic deal from a toxic president and a desperate Senate Majority Leader with grave environmental and human consequences. We need to reopen the government with a clean funding package to put people back to work now. A path to end this shutdown can’t include money for the militarization of the border or for an unpopular border wall. Sierra Club applauds all of the Senators who voted no on the Trump McConnell bill and for the clean CR. After the failure of the administration’s backward deal, Senate Republicans rejected a proposal to reopen the government through a clean CR. The Senate should bring back and pass the clean CR and open the government immediately."
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