Washington (AP) – The Democratic Chair of the Senate, Chuck Schumer Republican Government Financing Act This put the Democrats under great pressure to set limits to the Trump government.
Schumer told the Democrat privately during a spiritual lunch and then made the public comments before the vote on Friday, what will take hours before the midnight period to keep the government going. The New York senator said, as bad as the GOP law was, a closure would be worse and gave President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk “Carte Blanche” as they through.
“Trump brought a soldering lamp to our country and chaos led like a weapon,” said Schumer. “A closure would be a gift for Donald Trump. It would be the best distraction that he could demand from his terrible agenda. “
The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., left with Senator Tina Smith, D-Minn.
The move of Schumer brings a potential solution to a daylong patent situation. The Democrats of the Senate have received a final protest against the package that the house has already passed, but without making any limits to which they demanded Trump card and billionaire musk Efforts to build federal operations.
The Democrats are under strong pressure to do everything to stop the Trump government Efficiency of the government's MinistryWhich brings a demolition ball to the long -established government agencies and Clean thousands of federal workers From jobs.
Trump himself offered Wade on Thursday to negotiate: “If you need me, I'm 100%there.”
However, the President also began to blame the Democrats for possible disorders and said during an oval official meeting: “If it concludes, it is not the blame of the Republicans.”
As an alternative, Democrats urge a 30-day financing calculation. But Schumer said the Republicans rejected this offer. And while the Democrats were separated by the strategy, they were worried about the further chaos they say that Trump and Musk could cause if the government was closed.
Senator Ron Wyden, D-OR.
Schumer told the Democrat at a spiritual lunch with closed doors that he would be right to continue the legislation. His comments, which were first reported by the New York Times, were confirmed by two people familiar with the matter and granted anonymity to discuss them.
“People have strong views on both sides,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn, who is against the package.
When the Senate opened on Thursday, one day before midnight, Friday, the majority leader of the Republican Senate John Thune said: “It is time for Democrats to fish or cut bait.”
Debates about the financing of the federal government broke out routinely in moments of the deadline, but this year it shows the political leverage of republicans, the majority of the majority of the White House and the Congress of the White House and the shortcomings of the Democrats, which are unable to stop the Trump government's march through federal operations.
The Republicans of the House stayed together in a rare turn of events to pass their bill with many Conservatives cheer the reductions of Dogs The Democrats missed when they stood against the present. The house then left the city and sent it to the Senate for the final measures.
The options for Schumer were limited and the final passage before the deadline is not guaranteed.
The Republicans have a majority of 53-47 and would have to need Democrats to support the package to reach the 60-vote threshold that is necessary to overcome a filibuster.
Senator John Fetterman, DH-PA.
“I am in the Like camp that the government never closed,” said Senator John Fetterman, D-PA.
The Democrats will be with this choice for the next 24 hours: indicate the voices that will finance the government transactions by the end of September for the further development of the package, or risk a closure when money expires on Friday at midnight.
“You will skavage,” said Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn.
Cornyn said that the Democrats had “taken over against Elon Musk and the Trump government on the reduction of the federal employees, and now they basically want to do all of the work by closing the government.” He added: “I don't know how to reconcile these two positions.”
However, the progressive democrats, including the allies in the house, urge the Democrats to draw the border against Trump – even if they condemned a federal closure.
MP Greg Casar, D-Texas, the Chairman of the Congress Progressive Caucus, said on social media that House's GOPS invoice would dissolve “Musks theft of working people to pay the taxes of billionaires. Senate Democrats have to stop it. “
In a very unusual turn, the house package also demanded that Columbia districtwho already approved his own balanced budget to return to 2024 levels, whereby the mayor and the city guides cry out. They warn of steep reductions in city services.
Schumer said that he would “work with them to repair it”.
Democratic senators rate the next steps if they prepare for the vote.
“Both decisions that we are offered are full of despair,” said Senator John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.
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The author of the Associated Press, Darlene Superville, Aamer Madhani, Leah Askarinam and Stephen Groves contributed to this report.