Update: According to CNN's Manu Raju, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is still planning to bring the bill that passed the House on Tuesday night to the Senate floor. He's taken procedural steps to do so for a vote on Friday morning.
Thune takes procedural step to bring the House spending bill to the floor.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 12, 2025
Vote would occur Friday morning — hours before government shutdown deadline — unless there’s an agreement to have it sooner.
60 votes would be needed. Schumer is threatening to block it.
But senators…
Original: On Wednesday afternoon, after Senate Democrats met to discuss a looming potential government shutdown for Friday if a bill is not passed in time, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed that his party is prepared to shut down the government. On Tuesday night, the House voted mostly along party lines to pass a continuing resolution (CR), with all Republicans but one--Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky--unifying behind the bill. Democratic Rep. Jared Golden of Maine also voted for it.
Especially with one of their own, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) indicating he's opposed to the CR, Republicans needed that many more Democrats to cross the aisle in order to break the filibuster. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has reportedly indicated he'd vote in favor of the CR, and has also already posted to his X account that he would not shut down the government, but seven more Democrat votes would still be needed.
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"Republicans do not have the votes to invoke cloture (on their CR)," Schumer revealed, pointing to how his caucus is supposedly "unified." The Democratic unity supposedly has to do with a one-month CR that Democrats have drafted, which is not what has passed the House. That bill, which passed, funds the government until September.
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Senator Chuck Schumer: "Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR..." pic.twitter.com/pm2W515iXZ
Further, as Schumer speaks about bipartisanship, something he himself didn't necessarily care for when his party was in power, and even tried to nuke the filibuster, he leaves out that Golden voted for the CR in the House.
As Golden revealed over X when explaining his vote, he doesn't find the CR to be perfect, but finds it preferable to shutting down the government. The rest of his thread went on to mention what he does agree with when it comes to what's in this CR.
With such a declaration, Schumer appears to be in line with some of the most radical voices in the House, with CNN's Manu Raju speaking to them earlier at the Capitol.
Such voices include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the far-left Squad, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who previously chaired the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC).
As Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been indicating, a government shutdown thus looks to be on the Democrats.
Further, for all this talk from Schumer about unity in his caucus, Raju also spoke with Senate Democrats concerned about a government shutdown.
Fears persist among a number of Senate Dems about voting to block the House's plan -- despite their concerns with the proposal -- because of the prospects of a prolonged shutdown.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 12, 2025
Hickenlooper: "It does seem the lesser of two very serious evils to go along with the CR. Shutting… pic.twitter.com/MA8KxWLIo1
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