[custom_adv] Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, have resigned or been dismissed. [custom_adv] The record-setting turnover rate in the Trump Administration has been noted in various publications. [custom_adv] Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have the shortest-service tenures in the history of their respective offices. [custom_adv] For completeness, the list below includes, in addition to dismissals and resignations, routine job changes such as promotions (e.g. [custom_adv] Gina Haspel from CIA Deputy Director to Director), officials moving to a comparable position (e.g. John Kelly from Secretary of Homeland Security to Chief of Staff), and acting or temporary officials being replaced by permanent ones. [custom_adv] Tom Price went from embattled to former Health and Human Services secretary last September, after reports of his profligate spending -- more than $1 million for a couple dozen trips, including a flight from Washington to Philadelphia -- began to bug Trump. [custom_adv] Senators were being recalled to Washington after having already approved a bipartisan package earlier this week that would continue existing border security funding, at $1.3 billion, but without new money for Trump’s wall. [custom_adv] Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks with reporters on his way to the senate chamber. [custom_adv] Amid the impasse, Pence and the others were dispatched to the Capitol to meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who told them that Trump’s demands for wall money would not pass the Senate, according to the senator’s spokesman. [custom_adv] Schumer told Pence, Mulvaney and Kushner other offers to keep the government running with existing levels of border security funds remain on the table. [custom_adv] Pence and the others later walked across the Capitol to meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan. [custom_adv] Friday’s voting dragged on as senators rushed back to town. Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, said he returned to the Lone Star state on Thursday only to get back on an early Friday morning flight to Washington. [custom_adv] Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz flew all the way home to Hawaii, tweeting that he spent 17 minutes with his family, before returning on the 11-hour flight. [custom_adv] “Wheels down IAD ready to vote no on this stupid wall,” Schatz tweeted Friday, referring to Dulles International Airport outside Washington. [custom_adv] The Senate was expected to reject the House measure because Democratic votes are needed and McConnell showed little interest in changing the rules — as Trump proposed — to allow a simple majority for passage. [custom_adv] One possibility was that the Senate might strip the border wall funds out of the package, pass it and send it back to the House. House lawmakers said they were being told to stay in town for more possible votes. [custom_adv] Only a week ago, Trump insisted during a televised meeting at the White House he would take ownership of a shutdown over his border wall. “I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down,” he asserted. [custom_adv] But with the hours dwindling before the midnight deadline, Trump sought to reframe the debate and blame Democrats for the impasse that threatens hundreds of thousands of federal workers on the eve of the end-of-the-year holidays. [custom_adv] [custom_adv] “Senator Mitch McConnell should fight for the Wall and Border Security as hard as he fought for anything. Later in the morning, not even waiting for a Senate vote, Trump tweeted that “the Democrats now own the shutdown!” [custom_adv] At issue is funding for nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security, Transportation, Interior, Agriculture, State and Justice, as well as national parks and forests.