On Friday, the Senate approved a Republican Bill to finance federal agencies until September, and avoid closing the government hours before the deadline of the middle of the night yet Democrats It retreated.
The draft law approved the Senate in a vote 54-46, overcoming a highly declining democratic opposition. Next goes to Donald Trump To be signed in the law.
The result angered Democratic activists who accused the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck ShomerFrom wasting the small leverage they have to challenge Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon MuskThey are also seeking to dismantle large areas of the federal government. But Shomer said that the financing break provided a worse result that would allow the so -called “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” to exploit the crisis for the utmost destruction.
Speaking to reporters before Washington left on Friday, Trump again praised Shomer’s decision. He said, “I think it’s the right thing.”
To break filbuster, which requires 60 votes, 10 Democrats joined almost all of the Senate Republicans The patient has the financing bill passed at home. As part of a deal to secure the necessary democratic sounds, the parties agreed to allow a series of amendments to this measure.
In a statement, Senator John Vitirman, Democrat in Pennsylvania, said that his vote should not be mistaken in supporting what he called the “very defective” draft of spending.
He said, referring to the procedural vote: “Smoothing on the stroke is 100 % about refusing to close our government,” referring to the procedural vote. “I refuse to punish working families and drown millions of Americans in chaos or risk of stagnation.”
Join Shomer and Fetterman by Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, Catherine Cortez-Memasto from Nevada, Gary Peters from Michigan, Kirsten Gilbrand from New York, Brian Shatz from Hawaii, both of them are members of the New Hampshire, Maji Shasan, Jin Shaheen, and Angus King, which is What is said.
The King and Shaheen was only supporting the bill on the final corridor, which required a simple majority to pass it. Senator Rand Paul was the only Republican Republican to vote.
“Do not stop the fatwa by giving him your lunch funds, and do not stop the tyrant Trump by giving him more power,” Senator Jeff Mercli of Oregon, who has failed to adjust to recover $ 20 billion in financing the party’s peroles.
“The Republican Spending Bill is a empty check for Trump, which gives it tremendous flexibility to spend your tax dollars only on the programs he loves, and only in the states he wants.”
The vote revealed a general rift with the Democrats in the House of Representatives, where all Democrats voted against the government financing bill. Until the time of voting on Friday evening, Democrats in the House of Representatives urged their Senate counterparts to prevent the draft law they feared that Trump would encourage and reform Musk in the US government.
Before the procedural vote on Friday, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the bill as “a devastating attack on the welfare of the working class families.”
“Democratic Senate members must listen to women,” she said in a statement. “Rosa Deloro and Patti Murray’s credentials have presented the issue that we must have a better option: an extension of four -week financing to keep the government open and negotiate an agreement of the two parties. America has seen Trump’s closure before – but this devastating legislation makes matters worse.”
Alexandria Okasio Cortez Shomer also condemned his liquidation to the Republicans’ demands for the government financing bill, saying that this step has created a “deep feeling of anger and betrayal” among the Democrats.
Talk to the journalists in Lesburg, Virginia, where the house Democrats It was collected for the decline in the annual policy, Okasio Cortez said it has mobilized the democratic supporters to push Schumer to oppose what it described as “useful” for the Republican Party’s draft.
She said: “There are members of the Congress who won by Trump -controlled areas in some of the most difficult lands in the United States who walked on the wooden plate and took endless dangers in order to defend the American people.” “Only to see Democrats in the Senate until they think about cruelty to Elon Musk, I think, is a huge slap in her face.”
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According to Friday’s vote on such anger among the Democrats in the House of Representatives, some encouraged some members of the Congress in New York to challenge Schumer to his seat in the Senate, according to what he said. CNN. When asked about these suggestions, OCASIO-CORTEZ refused to comment.
From the Senate Hall, Shomer repeated his support for the spending law, warning that the government’s closure means that Trump, Musk and Doug will be free to make more definite discounts for federal agencies.
“The closure will allow the shift to Overdrive,” said Shomer. “Donald Trump and Doug will give the city, state and country keys. Donald Trump and Elon Musk will be free to destroy biomedically government services at a rate much faster than now and more than a much wider destruction.”
But the federal union network, a group of federal employees who oppose management A campaign to reduce the size of the governmentShe opposed, saying that the financing bill will increase the situation worse.
“Once again, Congress has failed in its responsibility towards the American people,” Chris Dolls spokesman said in a statement. “If it is passed, this CR will give Trump and hold the ability to complete their assault on federal workers.”
Earlier this week, Shomer Threaten Democrats vote and instead asked Republicans to consider 30 -day financing that would allow more time for party negotiations.
But Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson sent his members to their areas after the Republicans advanced The draft spending law on Tuesday, forcing the Democrats in the Senate actually to accept this procedure as being approved or risky to close it. In a statement on Friday, Johnson praised his gathering for adhering to them and accused the Democrats of directing the closure “simply because they hate President Trump more than they love America.”
Democrats will now have to face an angry base.
“Clearing the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk for social security, medicare and medicaid is unacceptable,” Joel Payne, a Moveon spokesman, a progressive organization calling for about 10 million members worldwide.
“It is time for Democrats to fight and stop behaving like working as usual.”
