Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Chief Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) traded photographs at one another Tuesday over who can be responsible for a authorities shutdown, one thing that each leaders indicated is turning into extra probably with every passing day.
“I’m sure you’re all asking the question, are we or are we not going to have a Schumer shutdown? It sounds like from what he is indicating, that very may well happen,” Thune instructed reporters after the weekly Republican coverage lunch.
Thune stated that Republican leaders are going to stay to their plan of passing a seven-week clear stop-gap funding measure via the Home after which placing it on the Senate ground, daring Democrats to vote “no.”
“We’re going to give them every opportunity to vote for a clean CR, something that in the past Sen. Schumer and the Democrats have said they support,” he stated.
Thune famous that 96 % of Senate Democrats voted for 13 short-term persevering with resolutions throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, when Schumer was the Senate majority chief.
“I’m hoping that notwithstanding what Sen. Schumer is saying that there are Democrats out there who think it’s a really bad idea, like they did last year, to shut down the government,” he stated. “Hopefully they will deliver the votes that are necessary for us to keep the government open.”
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday unveiled a 91-page invoice to fund the federal authorities via Nov. 21, which Thune stated would give lawmakers extra time to barter ultimate offers on the annual spending payments.
He stated the stopgap funding measure if handed would additionally give negotiators extra time to craft laws to increase enhanced medical health insurance premium subsidies below the Reasonably priced Care Act which might be resulting from expire on the finish of the yr.
Schumer and Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), in the meantime, launched an announcement Tuesday afternoon declaring their opposition to the Home Republican persevering with decision and pointing the finger again on the GOP.
“Right now, we’re exactly 14 days away from a government funding deadline. Democrats do not want a government shutdown. We’ve asked Republican leadership multiple times to meet with us to start negotiating,” Schumer stated at a Tuesday afternoon press convention, accusing the Speaker of “politicizing” the method by “refusing our multiple requests to sit down and talk and doing his own CR without a single conversation with Democrats.”
Schumer pointed to a big placard behind the rostrum, he highlighted Trump’s feedback throughout an interview with Fox Information urging fellow Republicans to not “bother dealing” with Democrats.
“When he says out loud he doesn’t need or want our votes, that means Donald Trump wants a shutdown. Full stop. Trump also said on ‘Fox & Friends’ all he needs are Republican votes. He’s wrong,” Schumer stated.
Schumer stated he’s been asking for six weeks for Thune and Johnson to sit down down on the negotiating desk with Democrats to debate the cuts to home non-defense spending within the March persevering with decision or the deep cuts to Medicaid within the One Large, Stunning Invoice Act.
“By refusing to sit down with Democrats, Republicans are telling the American people they’re happy to help Donald Trump to burn this country down and they’re happy to let the government shutdown,” he stated.
