Home Democrats are calling on their colleagues within the Senate to reject the GOP-passed spending invoice—and Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer says he’s received the votes to just do that.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input—any input from congressional Democrats,” Schumer stated Wednesday. “Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House.”
The Republican-led Home caved to President Donald Trump and co-president Elon Musk Tuesday, passing a spending invoice that may drive $880 billion over 10 years in cuts from social security web packages like Medicaid. The transfer is a unadorned try to increase GOP tax cuts for the wealthy on the expense of working-class Individuals.
Whereas Republicans had been in a position to move the invoice within the Home with the vote of solely one Democrat, it’s a unique story within the Senate, the place Republicans will want Democrats to assist them. And up to now, they’re not getting it.
“They should refuse to allow this bill to pass in the Senate,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, warned her Senate counterparts on Tuesday. “If they don’t, I think there’s going to be a huge backlash from across the country. And I think, all of them will, you know, will have to deal with the consequences of that.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was additionally clear in her emotions on the matter. “The Republicans have the White House, the Senate, and the House. If they want to do this, and if they want to screw over the American people, they can do this with their votes and their party. I do not believe that Democrats should participate.”
“Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez on her social media account, including that voters ought to “Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.”
Possibly Schumer and his fellow Senate Democrats have been getting these calls from voters—and no less than for now, they appear to be listening.
