The senator voted to move forward with the House Pass halt spending bill on Friday as the government shutdown deadline approaches inch.
A margin of 62-38 allowed the senators to vote for advances in the measure. Ten Democrats joined almost every Republican, overcoming the filibuster. Senate minority leaders Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., Senate minority Whipdick Durbin, D-Ill. and Senators Angus King, I-Maine, Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Katherine Cortezmast, D-Nev. Dn.Y., Jeanne Shaheen, Dn.H. voted to move the bill forward, against the rest of his Caucus colleagues.
The short-term spending bill passed in the House, known as the Continuous Solution (CR), will remain at the same level of maintenance as FY 2024 until October 1st. However, if the spending bill is not passed by 11:59pm on Friday, the government will enter into a partial shutdown.
Senate Democrats were caught up in passionate disagreements this week about what to do when the measure finally comes for a major procedural vote. Republicans needed democratic support to reach the 60 vote threshold. The GOP has only 53 seats, with Senator R-KY being R-KY.
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During the tense caucus meeting leading up to the vote, Democrats were tightly closed and didn’t want to reveal any details about the debate. At one meeting on Thursday, the senator cried out so loudly that the press could hear the thick, heavy wooden meeting room doors. The voice was identified by the press as Gillibrand’s voice, but her office did not confirm.
Several democratic senators opposed the suspension bill ahead of the procedural hurdles and shared that they would not vote to move it forward or vote to pass it.
However, they faced criticism from their government’s closed opponent, Fetterman.
Dem heard his colleague scream, despite Schumer’s unified claims as if the shutdown was looming.
In a recent interview with NBC News, D-Penn. Senator John Fetterman of the company declared he was “not progressive.” (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It wasn’t long ago before I lectured that the government could never be shut down, so that’s inconsistent,” he told reporters Thursday.
“We can all agree that it’s not a great CR, but that’s where we are, and that’s the choice,” he emphasized.
Schumer initially claimed his caucus was unified on Wednesday, calling for an alternative CR that would last only for a month. But Republicans didn’t upset the bill that would lead to homes for the rest of the fiscal year.
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Chuck Schumer, left, John Tune, right (Reuters)
By Thursday night, Schumer had made it clear he would vote to advance and pass the suspension bill, rather than offering President Donald Trump and Elon Musk the “gift” of government shutdown.
This has been a major dissatisfaction from the divisions with Democrats around the country about what the party leader should do in such a situation.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former chairman of D-Calif. (Drew Anger/Getty Images)
House Democrat leaders issued a late-night statement against the CR on Thursday, with D-Calif Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sharing her on Friday, as well as denouncement of the bill.
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The previous speaker called on Democrat senators to “listen to women” and “open the government to move forward with a four-week funding extension and negotiate a bipartisan agreement.”
Julia Johnson is a political writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business and is a major reporter in the US Senate. She was previously a political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
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