Article snippet: Senate Democratic Leader MORE (N.Y.) says a House-passed spending bill providing $5.7 billion for a border wall and border security is dead on arrival in the Senate, signaling raising odds of a partial government shutdown. “The bill that’s on the floor of the House, everyone knows, will not pass the Senate,” Schumer said moments before the House voted in support on the measure. He accused Speaker MORE (R-Calif.) of cynically putting the bill on the House floor “knowing it can’t pass the Senate.” “Everyone knows it can’t pass the Senate. It’s a cynical attempt to just hurt innocent people and do just what MORE wants even though they probably know it’s bad for the country,” Schumer said. The Senate is scheduled to convene at noon Friday to consider the House legislation. He said that once the Senate defeats the House-passed measure on Friday, House Republican leaders should immediately schedule a vote on a clean temporary funding measure, without border wall funding, that passed the upper chamber without opposition on Friday. “Leader Pelosi and I and probably Sen. McConnell would hope that the House would then consider passing the bipartisan, unanimously passed bill [sent down by the] Senate," Schumer said, referring to House Democratic Leader MORE (R-Ky.). “Whether they’ll do that or not, your guess is as good as mine,” he added. Asked about the prospect of Congress overturning a Trump veto of a clean short-term funding measure with money for the border wall, S... Link to the full article to read more