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.”
I’m alive and not buried in 6 figure debt because of the ACA.
My brother has a legal husband because of democrats fighting for gay marriage at the state level.
My local area had many lead pipes replaced about 18mo ago that used to carry our water supply. Take a wild guess which admin made sure that happened.
I have a much longer list of complaints about the Democratic Party, but let’s start from a place of truth if we’re going to start critiquing them.