Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on the Senate floor Thursday evening he would support the GOP spending bill, caving to Senate Republicans’ pressure to keep the government open and avert a partial shutdown.
Schumer’s decision to advance the Trump-backed stopgap spending bill that funds government operations through the end of September ends a high-drama shutdown fight about whether Senate Democrats were willing to plunge the country into a partial government shutdown. The government is scheduled to undergo a partial shutdown on Friday after midnight absent at least eight Democratic colleagues joining Senate Republicans to advance the six-month stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), to overcome the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster. (RELATED: Fiscal Hawks Warn GOP Spending Plan Must Reject ‘Budget Gimmick’ That Could Add…
