Senate Democrats are digging in for a fight on a House-passed stopgap funding measure that is needed by Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown.
After a closed-door caucus lunch, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that Democrats would fight for a one-month continuing resolution that would allow time for Congress to finish full-year appropriations bills.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path drafting their continuing resolution without any input … from congressional Democrats,” Schumer said on the foor, “Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR.”
