As Ed wrote earlier today, Senate Democrats didn’t have a lot of appealing options before them when it came to the looming government shutdown. But as of this afternoon it looks like Sen. Chuck Schumer is ready to reject the House passed bill and effectively lead his party into the shutdown two days from now.
“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…
