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House Democrats’ last ditch effort to get Sen. Schumer to change his mind failed. Ten Democrats helped defeat a potential filibuster and moved the bill to a vote. It was passed with two Democrats joining Republicans in the final vote.
The Senate passed a six-month funding bill Friday to avert a government shutdown hours ahead of the midnight deadline, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign into law.
The vote was 54-46, with two Democrats joining all but one Republican in voting yes. Earlier Friday, the bill cleared a key procedural hurdle with the help of 10 Democrats in a 62-38 vote. Sixty votes were needed to defeat a Democratic filibuster.
In addition to Schumer, nine other Democrats voted to advance the bill: Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Gary Peters of Michigan, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, and Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats.
But just two of those Democratic Caucus members — Shaheen and King — voted yes on the underlying funding bill.
So there were nine Democrats plus Angus King, an independent, who voted to advance the bill. All of them will now probably get the full treatment from angry progressives in the House as well as those in the base of the party who had started to refer to this as the « Schumer surrender. »
The Republican CR to fund the government just passed the procedural hurdle in the Senate because of these Democrats:
Chuck Schumer
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
Brian Schatz
Angus King
Maggie Hassan
John Fetterman
Gary Peters
Kirsten Gillibrand
Jeanne Shaheen
Shame on you… pic.
