Top House Democrats Throw Chuck Schumer Under The Bus Amid Funding Fight
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"This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said as Schumer cast his vote for an extreme GOP spending bill.
WASHINGTON – Top House Democrats are throwing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) under the bus after he announced he would help House Republicans pass their extreme spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
Incredibly, Schumer’s longtime House counterpart, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), publicly lashed him for setting up “a false choice” between the GOP’s bill and a shutdown, emphasizing that Democrats have long been pushing for another option: passing a short-term bill to simply keep the government funded at its current levels in order to buy more time for lawmakers to hash out a longer-term, bipartisan spending package.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.”
The federal government is set to run out of money at midnight on Friday, and the Senate has been weighing two bad options: vote for the GOP bill that already passed in the House and that would give President Donald Trump and his billionaire buddy, Elon Musk, new legal authority to decide how to spend taxpayer money, or let the government shut down. Ultimately, the GOP bill passed a key hurdle Friday evening with the help of 10 Democratic senators, including Schumer. A final vote on the bill was expected later Friday.
House Democrats overwhelmingly rejected the Republican bill earlier this week, given its draconian cuts to things like health care, veterans benefits and nutritional assistance. The GOP bill, which would fund the government through Sept. 30, would also give Trump unchecked power to move around billions of dollars in federal money – a power that some Democrats warn he could use to enrich himself or Musk, or to strip money from Democrat-led states.
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