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Senate Approves GOP Funding Bill, Averting Government Shutdown – Update
The vote has split Democrats on strategy.
The Senate voted to advance a Republican-written bill to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year, a process that has exposed a major fissure between Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and other members and activists irate that the party isn’t doing more to try to stop Donald Trump. He said that although the funding legislation was a bad bill, blocking it would risk a shutdown that could accelerate Trump and Elon Musk ‘s cuts of wide swaths of the federal government. Schumer’s position triggered calls online for a change in party leadership, while House Democratic leaders made a point of holding a press conference this afternoon to warn of the funding bill and its cuts to veterans and health care.
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