(MENAFN) The U.S. Senate has moved slightly closer to resolving a month-long partial government shutdown, but still no sign of relief anytime soon for 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the base for a vote on Thursday on a Democratic proposal to fund the government for three weeks, without attaching the USD5.7 billion in U.S.-Mexico border wall funding demanded by President Trump.
McConnell had said previously he would not consider a funding bill that Trump would refuse to sign.
The Senate leader said he would also suggest for a Thursday vote a proposal by Trump to end the shutdown that includes border wall funding and relief for "Dreamers," people brought illegally to the United States as children.
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