JUST IN: House Passes Spending Bill W/$5.7B For Border Wall

President Trump is celebrating tonight.

No one thought it would happen, but the U.S. House passed a last-minute measure late Thursday evening averting a government shutdown and allocating more than $5 billion for a border wall.

From Fox News:

The House of Representatives Thursday approved a bill that would fund most of the federal government through early February — and provides $5.7 billion for President Trump’s long-promised border wall — increasing the chances of a partial government shutdown later this week.

Eight Republicans joined all 177 voting Democrats to oppose the measure, which passed 217-185. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is certain to fall short of the 60 votes needed for passage since the chamber’s 49 Democrats are against the border wall. That in turn will increase the chances that parts of the federal government will cease operations at midnight Friday.

The vote came hours after Trump told House GOP leaders that he would not enact a Senate-passed package that does not provide money for the barrier.

In a video statement tweeted Thursday afternoon, Trump said he was “fighting very hard for border security” by insisting on funding for the wall, a central promise of his 2016 presidential campaign. …

Trump released a video message to the American people on Twitter.

“We need the wall. The Democrats know it, everybody knows it. It’s only a game when they say, ‘You don’t need the wall.’ … They want to try and do anything possible to hurt us because of the fact it’s politics. I understand that. I don’t even hold it against them, except you should always put your country first and they’re not doing that.”