Posted on 09/17/2025 5:16:11 PM PDT by fluorescence
Senate Republicans are calling foul on Senate Democrats' opposition to the GOP’s short-term plan to keep the government funded, calling it hypocritical.
House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their seven-week funding extension, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which congressional Republicans argue is as "clean" as can be. That means that the bill largely lacks any additional spending or policy riders.
But Senate Democrats have dug in deep on their rejection of the proposal, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown come Sept.30. It comes after Democrats previously warned Republicans not to use government funding as a political weapon when Democrats were in charge of the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., will ultimately need Democrats to pass a government funding patch.
He argued that under former President Joe Biden’s administration, Senate Democrats overwhelmingly voted for 13 CRs.
"Ninety-six percent of the Democrats voted for all 13 of those," Thune said. "This is, again, a new practice that's been invented because of Trump Derangement Syndrome,[snip]
"Now, all of a sudden, they can't vote for it? It's ridiculous," Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told Fox News Digital. "That's exactly where they're coming from, and it should be called the ‘Schumer Shutdown.’"
When asked why Democrats were entrenched against the Republicans’ bill, given their previous push for clean stopgaps, Schumer argued that "we’re in a much different situation" after the GOP passed President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill," the $9 billion clawback of foreign aid and public broadcasting funding, and the administration’s move to claw back an additional $5 billion in foreign aid.
He also ripped Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for not sitting down with him and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to negotiate a spending deal. Thune countered that his office is right around the corner from Schumer's.
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Shut it down then...
Schumer has a 17 percent approval rating this should be an easy case to make
Shut the blasted thing down and let the morons learn how to budget.
Shut it down! There’s more than one way to save money! Do it, call Chuckies bluff. Every day Trump can go on live TV and blame Chuckies for all the world’s evils since he stopped the budget. Ask people to call his offices! Call every Democrat Senators’ offices….
Shut it Down! The country survived a month long shutdown during Trumps first term. We can survive another shutdown.
Somebody isn’t reading the room very well. A Democrat shutdown would be icing on the cake.
Hmmm...
Seems the shoe is on the other foot...
Good! We will make political hay over a shutdown, for a change...
Why? We are in charge of the government.
It does not look like that Schumer wants any deal.
So let us go for Schumer shut down!
That doesn’t stop spending... Shut off the spigot no matter who is in charge... They are not getting anything substantial done anyhow, just send them all home. Essentials like SS, Medicare, Food stamps, etc will still be paid out...
Folks should be aware the 60 vote requirement gives the Democrats enormous power in this matter.
Sitting down and negotiating means they get something. The GOP side wants them to have nothing. What will now happen is the definition of clean will be argued. If I were the Dems I would say . . . clean is a bill that doesn’t accept the spending cuts on healthcare etc. The GOP position would be “clean” is a bill that follows the BBB roadmap.
They can stop 60 votes. If they don’t act to do that, their base will primary them.
This is not going to go smoothly.
In an earlier extension vote Schumer foolishly sided with the good of the American people by accepting a compromise.
The AOC, Elizabeth Warren and Ilhan Omar wing went ballistic with rage against him.
That signaled the end of Pelosi and Schumer as shoo-in leaders and the coming of the Mamdani style youth movement.
Shut it down. Who really cares?
Exactly. When you boil the socks this is What you are left with. The people that care about this are the same people I don't care about anyway,
Can anyone think of one good thing Schumer’s ever done for America? Even one thing?
Not changing his sex. Yet.
Shut it down and no one notices.
Worthless the federal gub mint is.
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