Prime Senate Democrats Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., made clear they solely intend to maneuver ahead on the unique stopgap spending invoice plan that Republicans scrapped after strain from billionaire Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump.
Murray mentioned she is ready for a partial authorities shutdown and to remain in Washington D.C., for the Christmas vacation if Republicans don’t return to the unique short-term spending invoice that was launched earlier this week and subsequently killed after Musk and others publicly opposed its provisions.
“I’m ready to stay here through Christmas because we’re not going to let Elon Musk run the government,” she mentioned in a Friday morning assertion, hours earlier than the federal government may very well be despatched right into a partial shutdown if a invoice just isn’t handed.
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Prime Democrats signaled unwillingness to maneuver ahead on another GOP variations of a stopgap invoice. (Reuters)
As of Thursday, the U.S. nationwide debt was at $36,167,604,149,955.61 and continues to climb quickly.
“Put simply, we should not let an unelected billionaire rip away research for pediatric cancer so he can get a tax cut or tear down policies that help America outcompete China because it could hurt his bottom line. We had a bipartisan deal-we should stick to it,” Murray mentioned.
In flooring remarks on Friday morning, Schumer mentioned, “if Republicans do not work with Democrats in a bipartisan way very soon, the government will shut down at midnight.”
“It’s time to go back to the original agreement we had just a few days ago. It’s time the House votes on our bipartisan CR. It’s the quickest, simplest and easiest way we can make sure the government stays open while delivering critical emergency aid to the American people.”
He additionally mentioned that if Speaker Mike Johnson have been to place the unique invoice on the Home flooring for a vote, “it would pass, and we could put the threat of a shutdown behind us.”
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Musk eviscerated the unique invoice on social media. (Photograph by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Publish through Getty Pictures)
Murray added, “The deal that was already agreed to would responsibly fund the government, offer badly needed disaster relief to communities across America, and deliver some good bipartisan policy reforms. The American people do not want chaos or a costly government shutdown all because an unelected billionaire wants to call the shots — I am ready to work with Republicans and Democrats to pass the bipartisan deal both sides negotiated as soon as possible.”
After Musk and conservatives railed towards the 1,547-page invoice, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance in the end condemned it as nicely, killing no matter probability it had left.
Murray’s Friday assertion got here shortly after it was revealed that Home Republicans have been planning a brand new persevering with decision (CR) vote within the morning on a unique proposal. It is unclear whether or not negotiations are going down throughout get together traces or bicamerally, nevertheless.
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Trump pinned any shutdown on Biden. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., instructed reporters Friday morning that Home Republicans have been “very close to a deal” and {that a} vote may occur within the morning.
Nevertheless, if that deal just isn’t the unique stopgap spending invoice, it seems like Murray and Democrats within the Senate could be ready to oppose it.
Murray additionally is not the one one who says they’re ready to let the federal government’s funding expire earlier than the vacation. A number of Republicans have expressed their willingness to let it shut down if Republicans aren’t capable of get a greater deal.
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Murray blasted Elon Musk’s involvement. (REUTERS/Jon Cherry)
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Trump himself wrote on Reality Social Friday morning, “If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP.’ This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”
Congress should cross a measure, and it have to be signed by President Biden by midnight on Saturday morning with the intention to keep away from a partial shutdown.
