As we reported on Wednesday, it looks like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is marching the Democrats toward a government shutdown by Friday’s deadline because they don’t want to vote in favor of the stopgap continuing resolution that was passed in the House that funds things through September.
Schumer is now trying to counter with a potential clean 30-day continuing resolution until April to avoid the Democrats getting tagged with the “Schumer Shutdown.” But just as a clean CR without any deal to pass the larger bill is just kicking the can down the road, it continues to make the Democrats look silly.
Also, as CNN’s Manu Raju suggested, there may be Democrats who are afraid of the government shutdown who will jump ship. It’s not clear where those people he talks about are now in the wake of the 30-day proposal.
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