The Senate was set to vote Thursday on the House’s continuing resolution to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has already called for Senate Democrats to oppose the bill as written, and instead proposed an amendment to fund the government only for 30 days.
Republican Senate leadership took aim at the Democrat senator from New York for leading the government to the brink of a fiscal crisis.
“In Senator Schumer’s last five months as majority leader, he didn’t bring a single fiscal year 2025 appropriations bill to the floor,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told The Daily Signal.
For discretionary spending, Congress ordinarily passes 12 separate appropriations bills.
“It’s time for the Democrat leader to acknowledge that it’s his decisions that put us here,…
