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.”
Alright I’ll ask you the same question I ask every smart ass. Let’s see if you’re the first one to actually give a real answer.
What would you have them do?
Abstain or vote no on this budget. Don’t give an inch — vote no on anything detrimental instead of trying to bargain. Drag republicans through court cases for all these nonsense executive orders.
They don’t need the democrats to vote yes. So all the people who get mad at the Democrats for doing “virtue signaling” instead of “real things” will be unhappy. I also have to ask: what does that accomplish? What does it do?
Got another suggestion?
Filibuster. Make it go to reconciliation. Keep proposing amendments to gum up the works.
Now dismiss this like you dismiss anything that isn’t “do whatever republicans want.”