Senate votes today on CR bill

Chuck Schumer Caves, Won’t Block GOP Plan to Avert Government Shutdown

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made a dramatic U-turn Thursday and announced that he would vote to allow Republicans to forge ahead with consideration of their plan to avert a partial government shutdown Friday at midnight.

Schumer (D-NY) argued that if the Democrats stall a Republican plan to avert a partial government shutdown, it will give President Trump too much power and have far more devastating ramifications than the GOP spending patch.

“While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” Schumer declared in a Senate floor speech Thursday evening. “Allowing [President] Trump to take even much more power is a far worse option.”

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