Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate majority leader, heads to the Senate chamber as two competing bills in an attempt to end the month-long partial government shutdown are scheduled to be voted on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on Jan. 24, 2019. A Democrat-backed bill to temporarily open the U.S. government without funding a border wall requested by the White House failed to pass the U.S. Senate on Thursday. (Xinhua/Ting Shen)