Schumer backed down and framed the CR as a win.

Schumer backs down on shutdown threat, giving Senate Republicans a political win

Senate Democrats abandoned months of brinkmanship and backed a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government open, a retreat that Senate Majority Leader John Thune says was driven by cold electoral math ahead of the midterm elections.

The Senate advanced a continuing resolution on Saturday to avert yet another government shutdown, with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his caucus supporting the measure after weeks of resistance. The CR would fund federal agencies at current levels through December 11, pushing the next budget fight past Election Night and into a lame-duck session of Congress.

CR stands for a continuing resolution. It is a temporary emergency spending bill that funds federal government operations and prevents a government shutdown when regular annual appropriations bills have not been passed by the October 1 start of the fiscal year.

Thune told Fox News Digital that Democrats made a political calculation, not a principled one. He said the minority party did not want to spend the next three months fending off Republican attacks over a shutdown they could have prevented.

"I think they didn't want to spend the next, well... three months defending attacks from Republicans about wanting to shut the government down."

Thune went further, describing his Democratic colleagues as operators who live and die by polling data.

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