By Molly Goddard
2:55am PDT, Mar 14, 2025
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Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer made it clear Democrats won't be signing off on Republicans' government funding bill.
During a floor meeting on Wednesday, March 12, the liberal
politician from New York alluded to a shutdown being on the horizon as he vowed that members of his party would not be passing the House-approved right-wing legislation.
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"Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats," Chuck Schumer stated at the hearing while requesting a one-month funding bill to give them more time to sort out a deal. "Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House [continuing resolution]."
The government has until Friday, March 14, to figure out a compromise or get the legislation passed and signed off on by President
Donald Trump.
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"There are not the votes right now to pass it," Senator
Tim Kaine from Virginia told the press, according to
NBC News. "Democrats had nothing to do with this bill. And we want an opportunity to get an amendment vote or two. And so that's what we are insisting on."
Although politicians on the left may not like the proposed bill, a
government shutdown could be just as damaging for both parties, as well as for people across the country.
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"Quite frankly, both outcomes are bad," Senator
Raphael Warnock from Georgia told reporters of the situation. "Elections have consequences, but this is an extreme bill. If it passes, it will hurt a lot of ordinary people on the ground. If the government shuts down, that will hurt a lot of ordinary people on the ground, and so that is the dilemma in which we found ourselves."
The former pastor got specific about what he didn't like about the legislation: "The problem I have with the bill is that I think it advances this project that we're seeing come from the executive branch, this power grab that does not respect that the power of the purse is with the Congress," he said.
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Democratic Senator from Arizona
Mark Kelly didn't take a position on the controversial bill but was overheard by a reporter saying, "I'm weighing the badness of each option."
Although they're trying to avoid a shutdown at all costs,
concerned leftists fear if they allow the bill to pass, it will set a bad precedent. "That's also one of the issues with what we're faced here," the former astronaut said.
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Senate Majority Leader
John Thune stated he won't be shutting down any conversations across the aisle about an amendment vote on a short-term stopgap funding bill.
"I think right now, they're still trying to figure out how they want to see this wrap up," the
Republican told the press. "But in the end, the vehicle that's available to us — and the House is long gone — that funds the government is the [continuing resolution] that came over from the House."
