A $2.7 billion Democratic plan to respond to the immigrant influx from Central America failed in a Senate procedural vote.
The Senate vote follows House GOP leaders' earlier decision to postpone the start of their August break to see if they could get support for their own border bill.
The Senate has no plans to stay, meaning Congress would go on recess for five weeks without sending the President legislation to address what both parties say is a humanitarian crisis.
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