This week, the Democrats are hot for the Senate of Democrats, because they weigh or support the draft expenditure of the government conducted by the Republicans, which they oppose, or risk that it will be blamed for closing the federal government.
A Front and Center is Senator John Fetterman (D., Pa.), Who swore to support the law to avoid closing, at the moment of reflecting a greater question in front of which the democratic party faces: when to fight and when to fall?
The Senate has three days to adopt the Stopgap Act, which finances the government for the next seven months. He removed the house on Tuesday.
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None of Pennsylvania Democrats voted for the Act on the Chamber, and all Republicans of the state voted in his favor, including US representative Brian Fitzpatrick from Bucks, who said he was on the fence before voting.
Considering 53-47 Republicans of most of the Senate, GOP legislators would need eight Democrats to join them to make a law to the final vote. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., NY) He said on Wednesday afternoon that the Democrats would refuse to support the act and instead pressing on another extension To allow individual expenditure bills to be considered.
But all changes to the Act adopted at home or extension would require home members – who postponed for a week – return and approve these changes, which is unlikely. This means that both sides are in the senior date.
Fetterman, the only democrat in the chamber, who clearly undertakes to support the expenditure act, called members of his party to do the same. Last week he joined some other democrats, criticized showing dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump during a joint speech to Congress.
“Weeks of performative” resistance “from people from my party were limited to unworthy antics”, he published his social media accounts, including the Trump platform, Truth Social. “Voting on the closing of the government will punish millions or risk recession. I do not agree with many points in [continuing resolution]But I will never vote for closing our government. “
In the case of Fetterman, the movement is consistent with how he reacted to the Republican control over the White House and Congress over the past few months, calling for his party to a more measured approach to the Flood of Changes in Politics, choosing infrequent moments of commenting against Trump’s administration, while finding the possibilities of supporting the Trump program.
But whether other Senate Democrats follow the Fetterman leader, it will just turn out. Many are struggling to determine less evil for the party fighting for resting after November losses throughout the country.
On the one hand, democrats do not want to strengthen the position of Trump and the billionaire adviser Elon Musk even more, and voting is a infrequent moment when they have a lever to reject the bill and force GOP to cooperate with them. On the other hand, they do not want to be blamed for closing when the Democratic Party brand tries to make contact with voters.
“Democrats did not put themselves politically to win this fight,” said the democratic political consultant Sean Coit. “It is not West wingThis is a real life, and if there is a closure, democrats eventually change a clear message that the American people hear every day that Trump and Republicans cause chaos. “
Some democrats are also afraid that closing dilutes their own argument against federal financing cuts and government exemptions and can simply escalate Musk’s wide plans regarding the limitation of the federal workforce.
Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) Is one of the senators who excluded the support of the Act.
“I do not want to close our government, I want to improve it, improve it and make sure that it provides the services needed by our communities,” he said in a statement on Wednesday morning.
Voting can take place at any time between Wednesday and overdue Friday. The deadline for avoiding closure expires at midnight, when government funds end for a year.
Other local democrats, including New Jersey Sens. Andy Kim and Cory Booker and Delaware Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, they did not publicly telegraph, how they plan to vote and did not immediately answer to their thinking.
The last closing of the government lasted 35 days, from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 and was the longest in four decades. But in recent years they have become a repetitive threat.
Closures are deeply unpopular, but historically they were largely associated with the Republican Party.
“Democrats are now in the wilderness,” said Chris Borick, interviewer at Muhlenberg College. “I think that they are desperately looking for a place where they have a certain lever, and at first glance it may seem that this is a situation, but I do not think it is a battle that they are best.”
Transfer of Fetterman to the center
Fetterman has long characterized his style of legislation as pragmatic, but at the moment when Trump took tactics to lower the government, some of his democrat colleagues called for greater withdrawal and uniform indignation.
“Nobody wants to close the government, but I have never politically seen that the political party pays the price on the day of elections for closing the government,” said democratic strategist Mike Mikus, noting that GOP was largely responsible for closing in 2019 and did not become the main topic of the campaign.
“This is one case in which a minority party has the opportunity to speak and should speak loudly,” said Mikus. He believes that part of the popularity of the Democratic Party results from the base that he did not fight without a compromise. “You can recover it by standing in defense of Donald Trump.”
Mikus, who in 2016 conducted a Senate campaign against Fetterman, criticized the Fetterman movement towards the center, saying that he “spent the last few months, blowing up his brand.”
“He found himself on a political island and his actions recruit the main opponent,” said Mikus. “I will not be our senator in 2029, I guarantee.”
Fetterman finally voted for 10 nominees for Trump’s office, binding the most democrats along with the New Hampshire Sens. Margaret Wood Hassan and Jeanne ShaheenIN Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper and Arizona Senator Ruben Gallo.
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Hickenlooper told CNN on a hill on Wednesday that he was inclined to progress the budget plan, although he did not make the final decision.
“If you close the government, the president is a person who decides what is necessary,” said Hickenlooper. “He decides what part of the government remains open, so you actually give it even more power.”
