Senate leaders of both parties sent encouraging signals Monday for Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-step stopgap funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown at week’s end.
Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., stopped short of endorsing the new continuing resolution, but he said Johnson “seems to be moving in our direction by advancing a CR that does not include the highly partisan cuts that Democrats have warned against.”
Schumer also delayed a planned procedural vote Monday night on a legislative shell for a competing stopgap funding plan that Senate leaders had been working on as a backstop.
