Government closed the Democrats of the Senate opposing the 6 -month financing bill | CUOS Media

The Senate Democrats said on Wednesday that they would refuse to support a Stopgap bill written to finance the government until September 30, considerably increasing the chances of a government closure at the end of the week.

After two days of intense Party meetings behind closed doors, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat in New York, appeared to say that his party members could not support the bill approved by the Chamber on Tuesday to maintain most of the federal funds at the current levels for the next six months. Rather, he urged the Republicans to adopt an extension of one month to allow the Congress to consider the invoices of individual spending and to reach a compromise that the two parties could accept.

“Our caucus is unified” on such a measure to “keep the government open and give the congress time to negotiate bipartite legislation that can adopt,” said Schumer in a brief declaration of the prosecution.

The announcement left Congress leaders without a clear route to avoid a closure that would start at 12:01 p.m. on Saturday if the congress would not act by extending federal funding. The Senate Republicans would need the support of at least eight democrats to overcome procedural obstacles and provide an expense measure to a final vote. Only one, Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, has so far declared that he would vote to break any obstruction.

The confrontation puts the Democrats of the Senate in danger of being blamed for any closure as they complain about the disturbances of the Trump administration to federal agencies. But they are under pressure from the Democrats of the Chamber and activists to oppose Mr. Trump and Elon Musk while they are making an effort to dismantle large expanses of the federal bureaucracy, in certain cases in contempt of the Congress, which holds the power of the bag.

With two days before the closing deadline, there is still time for a reversal of the Democrats. But most of them criticized the measure of the expenses of the Republicans, arguing that this would give Trump and Mr. Musk too much latitude to continue their unilateral efforts to reduce government employees and programs.

The Republicans, who control the two chambers, have shown no desire to compromise with the Democrats on the measurement of expenses. And even if they have accepted, to change the bill of the Chamber or to approve another would require that the Chamber will come back and vote again, which is very unlikely. Republican leaders deliberately postponed the room on Tuesday evening and left the city after adopting the expenditure legislation, known as continuous resolution, to effectively force the Senate to accept it.

This week’s private meetings have exposed a major dilemma for the Democrats while they are fighting to respond to republican legislation. The senators said they had two unattractive alternatives. They could oppose the GOP plan and potentially take the blame for a harmful federal closure or go to Mr. Trump and encourage the anger of the Democrats demanding that their representatives have thwarted the White House in each turn.

“There are really only two options,” said Senator Angus King, a Maine independent who caucus with the Democrats. “One is to vote for a fairly bad CR, or the other is to vote for a potentially worse closure. It is a very difficult choice.

Even if Mr. Schumer declared the opposition of his party, the Democrats continued in private to deliberate on a means of avoiding a closure without seeing Capitulating Trump. Some have suggested allowing the Stopgap expenditure bill to move forward as long as the Republicans agreed to give them a chance to revise it on the Senate floor. This would allow Democrats the opportunity to assert their political argument against measurement and show that they fight it, even if their proposals for changes have finally failed.

But while the Democratic leaders of the Chamber met for a retirement in Virginia on Wednesday, they pleaded with their senate counterparts to follow their example and oppose the government’s financing law.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat in New York and the head of the minority, described the measure of “grasping power that is unleashed and erases Elon Musk’s efforts”. He applauded his caucus for having glued Tuesday by voting against him and sending a clear repudiation message for his policies on the floor of the room. All the Democrats except one opposed the measurement to the House.

In the Senate, practically all Democrats are opposed to the Stopgap bill, which cleaned the room largely on Tuesday. They consider him an abdication of the power of the congress and a terribly ineffective means of finance the government while offering Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk more opportunities to transform the federal agencies. They also noted that he had exploded from an earlier bipartite agreement on national and military spending.

“Instead of writing a bill that gives our communities what they need, they have written a bill that transforms many of our accounts into a melting snow funds,” said Senator Patty Murray in Washington, the main democrat of the credit committee. The bill, she added, “gives the last word on what obtains two billionaires who do not know the first thing of the needs of our workers’ families.”

She and her Democratic colleagues from the Senate would, by far, adopt the bill of individual spending law which have been negotiated between the Republican leaders and democrats of the credit committees. But the Republicans of the Chamber withdrew from these talks in favor of the decision to freeze most of the funds until September 30, leaving only two remaining possibilities: blocking the expenditure bill or approving it.

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said that the Democrats should not give in “simply because the room decided to leave the city on Tuesday evening”.

“This does not mean that the Senate should not be a deliberative body,” he added.

Despite their opposition to the spending plan, the best Democrats are wary of forcing the government to a closure, fearing political return after years of distressed republicans for closings.

In addition, the Democrats feared that a closure would play in the hands of Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk, which allows them to keep the federal agencies. The Democrats also argued that he had remained clear how a stop would end once he started. And they conceded that this could reduce their criticisms of the government’s Ministry of Effectiveness as an uncontrollable buzz saw the shive of the government, if they refused to extend the funding of federal agencies.

Republicans were already trying to take advantage of their difficult situation.

“If I listen to our colleagues through the aisle, they claim to have a lot of concern for federal workers who depend on the financing of the government,” said Senator John Cornyn, a republican of Texas. “I therefore find it interesting that many of them in the House vote a vote that would put thousands, even hundreds of thousands of federal work workers.”

The Republicans go to inflamm the Democrats of the Chamber and defense groups which demanded that the Democrats of the Senate remain united against the legislation.

On Wednesday, more than 150 progressive and environmental groups made the Senate Democratic leaders urged them to “stay strong until Musk and Trump stop their illegal actions to dismantle federal key programs”.

At least one democrat said that causing a closure would open the way for additional damage.

“If one of these groups wants to close the government, I do not agree with them,” said Mr. Fetterman. “Not so long ago, we said Republicans who threatened to close the government. Now I think we are in the same situation. »»

The Democrats have excited the Republicans, saying that they had acted irresponsible by closing the federal agencies in past funding fights.

Mr. Schumer and his democratic colleagues caused a closure in 2018 while they were trying to gain protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States. But they capitulated after a brief closure of the weekend, when the legislators concluded that the strategy turned against him and angry the public.

They tried to make sure they had not been accused of government funding terms since then.

Annie Karni contributed the reports of Leesburg, Virginia.