Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the House, leaving it uncertain whether Congress can avert a shutdown before Friday night’s deadline.
The House on Tuesday narrowly approved a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through the end of September.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR,” Schumer said on the floor, calling for a one-month funding bill that provides more time to negotiate a deal.
“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass," he said. “I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.”
It’s so sad, I remember hearing him talk pre-stroke and he really did seem to be a progressive ally in most ways, to see how it’s turned out… Ugh.
I gave him a lot of benefit of the doubt for a long while, but it’s clear he’s changed, in a bad direction, and he both refuses to seek help or acknowledge it.
I liked him until I looked into his history. He’s a nepo baby that got a local job then won national office by pretending to be progressive and wearing sweatpants or whatever. He was a fraud before his stroke and he’s straight evil after it.
Probably better than Dr Fucking Oz still. I hope they both choke on crudité.