Senate Democrat minority leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday evening that he would support the GOP spending bill on the Senate floor, leaving Senate Republicans open and under pressure to avoid partial closures.
Schumer’s decision to advance a Trump-backed suspension spending bill that funds government operations by the end of September will bring an end to the high-drama shutdown battle over whether Senate Democrats are willing to plunge the country into partial government shutdowns. The government is set to undergo partial closure on Friday, even without at least eight Democratic colleagues joining Senate Republicans to advance the six-month suspension spending bill known as the Continuing Resolution (CR) to overcome the Senate’s 60 vote filibuster. (Related: Fiscal Hawks Warning GOP Expenditure Plans must reject “budget gimmicks.”
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“The shutdown will be a costly distraction from this very important battle [against President Donald Trump]Schumer added.
Senate Democrats are expected to join Schumer to advance the GOP spending bill, avoiding the government shutdown, likely blamed for Senate Democrats.
“Democrats are encouraging the shutdown and they need to pay the price for the shutdown,” Senate majority Whip John Barrasso told reporters Thursday morning before Schumer’s announcement. “They seem proudly owning the shutdown.”
Some Senate Democrats were yelling in a heated debate with colleagues about how they would proceed in the CR that passed Thursday afternoon home.
Senate Republicans have consistently noted that when Schumer led the Democratic-controlled Senate in the last Congress, he was handed over from the committee, and therefore did not bring in the committee’s budget bill, which was handed over from the committee.
“If Democrats here in the Senate join us as Republicans and don’t give us anything along its nature, they’ll shut down the government,” said Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capit. I said Bloomberg TV on March 5th. “It’s a road everywhere and it’s not harmful to all Americans. I should have dealt with this last year, but Senator Schumer didn’t even pick up one of the budget bills that he passed last year.”
Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats are opposed to the GOP government fundraising bill. He urges Senate Republicans to consider a 30-day short-term funding bill drafted by Democrat budgeters instead, giving them more time to negotiate an omnibus spending package, which is likely a non-star of Senate GOP leadership.
“While funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, Republicans chose a partisan path and drafted them. [continuing resolution] Inputs from Congressional Democrats – there was no input,” Schumer said on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon. “So Republicans have not voted in the Senate to call House CR coagulation.”
“Our caucus is neatly united [CR through April 11] It will leave the government open and give us time to negotiate bipartisan laws that Congress can pass,” Schumer said.
The Senate is scheduled to vote procedurally on Friday to advance CR.
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