Shumar announced that he would vote to keep the government open, possibly likely to avoid shutdown


The Senate Democratic Leader Chak Shumar announced on Thursday night that he plans to vote for the government to keep open, indicating that a house would be almost sufficiently adequate democratic votes to carry forward a house GOP funding bill before the shutdown deadline at the end of the day on Friday.

In a comment on the Senate floor, Shumar admitted that a government shutdown was a poor result.

“While the Republican Bill is very bad, the possibility of a shutdown is the result for the US that is very bad. Certainly, the Republican Bill is a terrible option,” he said. “This is not a clean CR” or constant resolution, he said. “It is deeply biased. It does not overcome a lot of needs of this country, but I believe that it is a very bad option to allow Donald Trump to take even more power in the government shutdown.”

Republican, Shumor argued, blamed for a “Hobson’s choice” that “brought us to the brink of disaster.”

“Until the Congress works, the federal government will stop tomorrow at midnight. I have said many times that there are no winners in the government shutdown. But of course are: The weakest Americans who trust federal programs rely on their families to reach medical care and feed them financially.”

A decision to shut down the government would give President Donald Donald Trump and his senior advisor Elon Musk a lot of power to continue their federal activist without conscience, he said.

“A shutdown Donald Trump and Elon Musk Carte will destroy the blanch at a fairly fast rate to destroy the services of the government. As they will give a personnel a personnel with full rights to fulfill the programs of the entire agencies as Trump Administration, they would not promise with non -psychiatric, furlogging staff,” said Shumar said. “In short: A shutdown Donald Trump will give Elon Musk and dog will dog the state and country’s key.”

Earlier on Thursday, Shumar told his Democratic colleagues during a closed door lunch that he would vote for a way to clear a way for the last passage of the House-Gope Funding Bill, the sources familiar with the case told ABC News.

This step will clear the way to pass the bill with a simple majority for the Republican.

The Senate Democrats remained tightly tightly after the shutdown doors ahead of the fast -bounded time limit.

Democratic Sen Tammy Baldwin said, “What happens in Caucus, lives in Cocks.”

“Ask someone else,” the Democratic Sen Corey Booker Gablore.

“I have no comments,” said Sen Elizabeth Warren.

The Senate Minority Leader Chak Shumor left the Democratic Cocks Lunch in the US Capital, 13 March 2025 in Washington.

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Many Democrats have privately admitted that they do not have votes to block a Republican proposal to keep the government funded through September, several sources told ABC News.

There was tension over full performance in a private meeting. Sen Kirsten Gilibrand was screaming so loudly about the effect of a shutdown that reporters could hear her through the walls.

A Democrat, who talked about anonymity situation, told ABC News, “We lost it two weeks ago … We should have beaten this drum for a month.”

At that time, only Democratic Sen John Fetterman publicly indicated that he would vote to keep the government open.

Fetterman insisted that he would not bow down to the posture seen from party leaders when he urged the Republican to keep the government open in the past when Democrats controlled the upper chamber.

“Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes even sometimes,” Fetman told reporters at the capital on Thursday afternoon. “Democrats, Republican, Independents, None. Never shut down the government. It is one of our main responsibilities.”

Fetterman called political pressure “spicy” – told reporters that he is “consistent” in his royal belief that does not vote for a shutdown.

Fetterman admitted that the Republicans were daring to shut down the “Democrat” government, but Freshman Democrats were worried that workers and people are those who are “really hurt” based on federal services. “

Now when the Republican cleaned its bill through the House, Fetman said that they believe the fight is over.

Fetterman said that only time takes advantage of Democrats if Republican needs votes in the House.

“GOP distributed, and it effectively excluded it. And he forces us to say,” Are you going to shut down the government, or you’re going to vote for a flawed CR? ” And now for me, I refuse to close the government. ,

Sen John Fetterman spoke to reporters outside the chamber during a vote at Capital in Washington on 13 March 2025.

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Shumor said on Wednesday that Senate Democrats would not provide the necessary votes for Republicans to further the House-Eminent deal to fund the government through September. Instead, Shumar proposed a one-month stopgap measure, so that the appropriated would allow more time interactions and to complete the full-year funding bills.

Republican and White House, meanwhile, are pointing to the finger on the democrats when there is a shutdown.

“If it closes, it is purely on Democrats,” President Donald Trump said he raised questions of the reporter during a meeting with NATO General Secretary Mark Rute at the Oval Office on Thursday.

Trump was asked if he stepped into a conversation with Democrats and he said that if Republican requested this, he would do: “If he needs me, I am 100%there.”

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