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this site uses cookies to enhance your reading experience. by using this site, you consent to our use of cookies.okayclose icon. axios future: china blind spot — future of yellow vests — happy new year. dni report confirms russia sought to influence 2018 midterms. axios pm: the wall and the shutdown — ginsburg has surgery — 1 biblical thing. trump's sudden syria decision undermines his own foreign policy team. the dow just had its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. mick mulvaney called trump's border wall absurd in 2015. supreme court upholds block against trump's asylum ban. authorities will not charge jd.com ceo richard liu in alleged ra*e. u.s. exit from syria would heighten need for humanitarian aid. trump's hasty withdrawal from afghanistan could imperil peace process. north carolina flagged illegal voting activity to the feds last year. the house of representatives and the senate have been adjourned until saturday at noon, indicating a partial government shutdown will take driving the news: the senate pas*ed a procedural vote friday evening to take up a short-term spending bill pas*ed by the house. but republican sens. jeff flake and bob corker, who were initially against the motion to proceed, said they switched their vote with the understanding that the senate will not vote again until both chambers of congress and president trump can come to a consensus on border wall son-in-law jared kushner to meet with senate minority leader chuck schumer. the big picture: the shutdown, scheduled for midnight, would disrupt government operations and leave hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or forced to work without pay just days before christmas, the ap reports between the lines: trump has resumed his longtime campaign to get mcconnell to abandon the filibuster. don't expect this to happen, priorities. it also could backfire if and when democrats eventually retake the senate. what's next: lawmakers will return saturday at noon to continue negotiations.