AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Schumer backs down on shutdown threat, giving Senate Republicans a political win
Senate Democrats abandoned months of brinkmanship and backed a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government open, a retreat that Senate Majority Leader John Thune says was driven by cold electoral math ahead of the midterm elections. The Senate advanced a continuing resolution on Saturday to avert yet another government shutdown, with Minority Leader Chuck […] The post Schumer backs down on shutdown threat, giving Senate Republicans a political win appeared first on American Almanac .
Senate Democrats abandoned months of brinkmanship and backed a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government open, a retreat that Senate Majority Leader John Thune says was driven by cold electoral math ahead of the midterm elections. The Senate advanced a continuing resolution on Saturday to avert yet another government shutdown, with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his caucus supporting the measure after weeks of resistance. The CR would fund federal agencies at current levels through December 11, pushing the next budget fight past Election Night and into a lame-duck session of Congress. Thune told Fox News Digital that Democrats made a political calculation, not a principled one. He said the minority party did not want to spend…Open