As the Friday night deadline that triggers a government shutdown approaches, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats would not approve the Republican proposed budget bill. "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."
NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge ... [image or embed]
-- Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Senate thinks its voting to avoid a government shutdown. The shutdown is already happening, and it is permanent.[image or embed]
-- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
IAMRUNT lies again. The CR is as dirty as the capitol rotunda was after the MAGAts defiled it on J6.
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