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.”
DO IT.
Shut this bitch down, I know Muskrat wants it to happen with speculation that it would aid him or w/e but historically government shutdowns have always hurt Repubs. Musky is also an idiot, who thinks he’s an evil genius, so the chance it’ll entirely backfire is pretty high
The reason he thinks it’ll help him is because the furloughed employees are called “non-essential” but in the context of a shutdown, it means “non-essential because all unfunded work has to stop” rather than “non-essential and so their positions can be eliminated.” And not every agency relies on Congress for funding so they just stay open. (Like if you pay a fee for something, there’s a good chance it’s self-funding and stays open during the shutdown.)
This is one of the things Elon Musk apparently doesn’t understand about government.
But it’s always GOPers who are causing the shutdown, right? Has there been a dem shutdown?
No, and there still won’t be because this one would also still be the GOP’s fault.