Democrats in Washington went from being in a arduous place to a state of dissatisfied on Friday, when they argued about whether to vote for a bill, which they opposed, or vote against it, and the risk of blaming the government.
Ultimately, the 10 Democrats Senate joined the Republicans on Friday in voting, promoting the law to the final majority of votes and ensuring its adoption in the chamber led by republicans. Republicans needed eight Democrats to close the debate and develop a funding. The resolution passed the Senate later in the evening in voting in the amount of 54 to 46, hours before the date of continuing the financing of government.
But the division of the party, in battle and behind the scenes this week, reflected divergent views on how to oppose President Donald Trump, when Democrats struggle with narrow power and enjoy a few moments of levers.
“Mine votes * not * the support of this deeply defective CR,” wrote Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania about X on a continuous resolution. “My voice is to refuse to close our government. I refuse to punish working families and immerse millions of Americans in chaos. “
Fetterman was an early “yes” regarding resolution. The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer (D., NY) announced on Thursday that he would also vote for maintaining the government, despite the deep fears of the budget proposal in which the Democrats had nothing to say.
“Cr is a bad bill. But as bad as CR, I think Donald Trump Taking even more power by closing the government is a much worse option – said Schumer.
Senator Dave McCormick (R., Pa.), Who happened to preserve a key vote, because his turn in GOP rotation with the podium staff will come, he voted so along with all his colleagues from GOP.
The eleventh hour of Schumer’s call to support the resolution passed members of his party in both chambers.
Delaware meaning. Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester voted against a resolution, which will increase defense expenses by $ 6 billion compared to the tax year in 2024 and reduce the expenses of underestimation by $ 13 billion. The Republicans said that the bill is “immaculate” and without partisan funds, but many democrats, including COOnts, argued that the lack of the specificity of the resolution allows Trump and musk to be more freedom of managing funds depending on this.
“The fault is not with the democrats who have been forced to choose between two terrible results,” said Coons in a statement after the first vote. “It belongs to Trump and his allies in the Congress, who got into the partisan, a challenging expenditure account so that they can go to the priority of Medicaid limiting, in order to pass more tax reductions to billionaires, and my republican colleagues who prefer to send them to irrelevant than to protect their constitutional measures responsible from replacing the authority of the executive power.”
New Jersey Sens. Andy Kim and Cory Booker also voted against the funds.
“Republicans did it so with musk and the most powerful win, and everyone is losing,” she said in the statement. “I do not want to close, but I cannot vote for this exaggeration of power, giving Trump and musk unquestionable power to equalize pockets.”
Several senators also opposed this in less reliably democratic countries.
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Schumer, which aims to criticize
House democrats on Friday He disseminated the letter calling for Schumer to be considered again with 66 signatures.
“The American nation sent the Democrats to the Congress to fight the Republican chaos,” they wrote. “Instead of surrendering to their obstacles, we must fight … We call you to reject a partisan continuous resolution.”
The letter, whose copy was obtained by Inquirer, had support from Pennsylvania democratic American representatives. Dwight Evans, Summer Lee and Madeleine Dean.
In the statement, Dean said: “Republicans are controlled by the Chamber, the Senate and the White House. They must finance our government – and they decided to follow the unlawful path of our president. “
Schumer’s document in the Chamber, the leader of the minority Hakeem Jeffries, called this “a false choice presented by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and House Republicans, between their reckless and partisan expenditure account and the closing of the government.”
Voting seemed to guarantee that he would create questions for the party that closes in just two months of the ruling Trump in the White House. He asked by reporters on the hill about Schumera and if there should be recent leadership in the SenateJeffries answered with two words: “next question.”
