Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN that his chamber might have to take matters in its own hands and push through a must-pass bill to fund the government amid deep divisions in the House and a looming shutdown by next weekend.
For weeks, Democratic and Republican senators have been watching the House with growing alarm as Speaker Kevin McCarthy has struggled to cobble together the votes to pass a short-term spending bill along party lines – all as he has resisted calls to cut a deal with Democrats to keep the government open until a longer-term deal can be reached. The initial plan: Let McCarthy get the votes to pass a bill first before the Senate changes it and sends it back to the House for a final round of votes and negotiations.
Now with House GOP leaders still struggling to get the votes ahead of the September 30 deadline, Schumer said he would try to cut a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and send it to the House on the eve of a potential shutdown – all as he signaled he was pushing to include aid to Ukraine as part of the package.
We need to do away with the fucking Senate.
Doesn’t this happen every year, like some sort of dysfunctional system clock?
Schumer does most of the talking. McConnell just kinda…stares.
How sad that it’s come down to Mitch McConnel being the most reasonable Republican in the room.
All he has to do to be the most reasonable Republican in the room is just stand there and not say anything.
Shutdown? Is that what had been happening to McConnell, frequent shutdowns?
