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The US Senate passed a legislative template on Friday evening on Friday evening to avert a government final after a handful of Democrats had raised their resistance to the measure supported by Republicans.
The Senate voted 54-46 to further finance the government, just a few hours before closing had started.
In an earlier decisive procedural vote, nine democrats helped the Republicans to search the measure that the Federal Government will finance by September 30th.
The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer, and eight other Democrats came up with the Republicans to drive the so -called continuous resolution. An independent senator who crouches with the Democrats also supported the law.
The Republicans control the Senate, but called for a “super majority” to approved the procedural vote that has overcome a potential filibuster. The legislation now goes to the desk of President Donald Trump for signing.
The final coordination is a tense discussions among the Democrats for a week who tried to unite for a strategy for negotiation with Republicans. Although they control both congress chambers, the Republicans lack super majority and needed help from the aisle to bring the bill to vote.
The Republican Law contains provisions with which Democrats are dissatisfied. Some democratic legislators expressed concerns that it is Trump card Too much space to issue his agenda in the next six months. Nevertheless, the Democrats did not want to be held responsible for the government’s closure, which the President and the Republicans made clear.
Schumer had initially pushed back strongly against the Stop-GAP law draft, but reversed his attitude and contributed to convincing others in his caucus to vote for the measure.
There was a risk that Trump and the tight consultant Elon Musk would use a shutdown Executive Power GrabSchumer argued and found that Musk and his so -called Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) could accelerate their cost reduction with fewer checks for their power.
Trump praised Schumer for the move: “By the way, I have great respect for what Schumer did today,” he said in comments in the Ministry of Justice. “He went out and said that they had to coordinate with the Republicans because it is the right one. I couldn’t believe what I heard, but. . . I think he will get some recognition for it. “
Schumer’s support for the legislation paved the way to follow the example of other Senate Democrats.
After the procedural vote, Senator Dick Durbin, a high -ranking Democrat, said “the last thing we have to do is to plunge our country into another chaos and turbum by closing the government”, while Trump and Musk “bring a chainsaw into the work of the federal government”.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who also supported the measure to advance, said it would “give the Republicans” with a closure.
However, Schumer was criticized by some in the party, especially in the house.
Before the vote on Friday, Hakeem Jeffries said that the supreme democrat in the house said that his Caucus was “strong against the partisan republican expenditure invoice” and said that Trump and Musk presented a “wrong choice” between the stop-lacquer and a government reinforcement. But Jeffries refused to say whether he had lost confidence in Schumer.
The democratic representative Nancy Pelosi, a former advisor to the House of Representatives, also has a blow to Schumer before the vote. “Let us be clear: it is also not a good option for the American people. But this wrong decision that some buy instead of fighting is unacceptable. “
The progressive democrat representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Thursday that “I hope that the Senate Democrats understand that their move has nothing clever.” “These games will not be wrong.”
