On Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) called out a “double dose of Democrat hypocrisy” when it came to a push to pass the Republican-backed stopgap bill that averted a partial government shutdown last week.
In remarks on the Senate floor, Thune alluded to how just nine Democrats and one independent helped the upper chamber overcome the three-fifths filibuster threshold and proceed with a continuing resolution that provided funds to various federal agencies and programs through the end of September.
“The rest preferred to filibuster the bill and shut down the government. It was a double dose of Democrat hypocrisy,” Thune said. “Democrats who had campaigned to abolish the filibuster enthusiastically embraced it now that it served their purposes and Democrats who had decried the evils of government shutdowns now embraced shutting down the…
