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Billion. jim acosta at the border for us. thank you. republicans in the senate ditching an 11th hour plan to find a compromise after president trump rejected it. the measure included border wall funding and tremp area protections for d.r.e.a.m.erss. house democrats passing two spending bills, 12 republicans joining them to pass the first measure, which would reopen the transportation department and housing and urban development. but as phil mattingly reports, it may be all for nothing. reporter: for a brief moment there was hope, not hope that there was going to be a solution to the government shutdown, but hope because at least people were talking. to be specific, a group of republican senators, senators who had expressed frustration at the president s strategy, who had said they didn t want a shutdown at all, that they wanted to find a way out. they had been working since wednesday night on a proposal that would essentially trade protections on a temporary basis for the money tha ....