At the end of this week, Senate Democrats may force a partial government shutdown rather than allow a final vote on a GOP-backed stopgap bill that already has passed the House.
Republicans are warning of a “Schumer Shutdown,” named after Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who said on Wednesday that the Senate majority lacks the votes necessary to break the filibuster on the GOP’s continuing resolution and should take up the Democrats’ one-month funding patch instead.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort but Republicans chose a partisan path drafting their continuing without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,” Schumer declared on the Senate floor. “Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and…
