Senate Democrats insist on voting on 30-day government funding bill
Source: The Hill
Senate Democrats say they will not vote for the House-passed six-month government funding package, which would boost defense spending and cut nondefense programs, unless they first get a vote on a 30-day funding stopgap to give bipartisan negotiators more time to reach a deal on the annual appropriations bills.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced on the floor that Democratic senators would not vote to advance the House bill — at least not now — and called for the Senate to instead pass a 30-day “clean” government funding stopgap.
“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 [continuing resolution],” he said.
“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. We should vote on that. I hope, I hope our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday,” Schumer added.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5191508-senate-democrats-vote-government-funding-30-day-cr/
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Yesterday, The Hill had the "whiny Democrats" stories.
I am hoping they STAND THEIR GROUND.
The government is effectively "shut down" anyway with people being fired, put on administrative leave, left with no desk or place to work due to not enough space after agencies SAVED MONEY by reducing their footprint years ago with the work-at-home arrangements, and then having to hop, skip, and jump about "what did you do today?" bullshit spam emails.
