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On Friday night, the US Senate adopted the Proposal of the Government Law on the Government after a few Democrats left its resistance to a Republican extent.
The Senate voted 54-46 to maintain government financing, just hours before the closure began.
In a earlier key procedural vote, nine Democrats helped the Republicans go through the measure, which will finance the Federal Government until September 30.
Chuck Schumer’s minority Senate leader and eight other Democrats stayed with the Republicans in pushing the so -called continuous forward resolution. An independent senator who advocates with democrats also supported the bill.
Republicans control the Senate, but demanded “supermaria” to approve the procedural vote that overcame the potential filibuster. The draft is now referring to the table of President Donald Trump to sign.
Final voting a week on a weekly tense conversations among the Democrats, who fought for uniting behind the strategy for negotiations with the Republicans. Although they control both Congress Chamber, the Republicans lack Supermajority and needed help from the whole passage to make the bill a vote.
The Republican PROPOSAL OF THE LAW includes provisions that Democrats are not satisfied. Some democratic legislators expressed concern that those hands Trump Too much space to bring your agenda over the next six months. Still, Democrats did not want to be guilty of extinguishing the Government, which the President and Republicans made it clear that they would do.
Schumer initially pushed himself hard against the stop law, but reversed his attitude and helped to convince others in his MP to vote in favor of that measure.
There was a risk of Trump and a close advisor Elon Musk to use shutdown as Executive grab of powerSchumer claimed, noting that Musk and his so -called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) could accelerate their reduction of costs with fewer checks of their power.
Trump praised Schumer for the move: “By the way, I have great respect for what Schumer did today,” he said in noticing the Ministry of Justice. “He came out and said they had to vote with Republicans because it was right to do it. I couldn’t believe what I heard, but.
Schumer’s support for the law ran the path to other democrats of the Senate to follow the lawsuit.
After the procedural vote, Senator Dick Durbin, a senior Democrat, said “the last thing we need to do is push our country into further chaos and restlessness by closing the government,” while Trump and Musk “take a chainsaw into the workforce of the Federal Government and illegally freeze federal financing.”
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who also supported the progression of the measure, said she would “play in the hand of Republicans” with the closure to give the male and Trump “unverified power to continue to dismantle the federal government.
However, some in the party criticized Schumer for this, especially in the house.
On the eve of the vote on Friday, Hakeem Jeffries, a top Democrat in the House, said his Kakakus “strongly opposed the Partisan Republican Save Law,” said Trump and Musk presented the “false choice” between stopping and closing the Government. But Jeffries refused to say if he had lost confidence in Schumer.
Democratic representative Nancy Pelosi, a former president of the House, also ran her finger at Schumer before voting. “Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this fake choice that some buy instead of fighting is unacceptable.”
Progressive Democratic representative Alexandria Fathers-Cortez said on Thursday that “I hope Democrats of Senate will understand that there is nothing smart” their move. “These games will not fool anyone.”
