Senate votes to avoid the closure of the government

The Senate mostly voted along the party’s lines on Friday afternoon to pass the draft law of the House of Representatives that the Republicans formulated to finance the government until September, and avoid the government’s closure just hours before funding due to the expiry.

President Trump is expected to sign the bill in the law.

The final voting was 54-46. Two of the democratic gatherings voted in favor of the draft law, SENS. Jeanne Shaheen (DN.H.), who retired at the end of her current term, and Angus King (Maine), is independent to infiltrate with the Democrats. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Voice.

The approval of the bill means that legislators will not fight because of the government’s financing again until the fall, which spoils the way for the Republicans to focus on the age of Trump’s agenda, such as financing border security and expanding the tax cuts law for 2017.

The Parliament’s Parliament’s spending bill was passed on Tuesday with a vote from 217-213, with only one democratic vote in its favor.

A fierce battle within the Democratic Senate has caused how to deal with the package, which was designed without any democratic inputs in the House of Representatives.

Legislation will increase defense spending by $ 6 billion, reinforce border enforcement financing, and non -defensive spending will reduce $ 13 billion.

More problematic for many Democrats, the language does not include the Trump administration education on how to spend financing. Some Democratic lawmakers have warned that Trump and his advisers would allow funding for financing in favor of their priorities, regardless of what Congress wants.

The Democrats led by Senator Patti Murray (Washington), the highest Democrats of the Senate Credit Committee, and Senator Jeff Merkeley (raw), the largest democracy in the Budget Committee, urged their colleagues to defeat the parliament’s proposal. Instead, clean government financing was funded for 30 days.

Merkeley CNN told an interview that he was “hell not” on the draft law of the house.

He said that the acceptance of the Republican Party’s draft law in the House of Representatives will not encourage Trump and hold only.

He said: “Do not stop the fatwa by delivering your lunch money, and do not stop the tyrant by giving him more strength.”

Sens Progressive Sens led. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) And Bern Sanders (I-VT) from the left to kill the draft law that was passed to the home, which helped to intensify strong opposition to the draft law of party activists.

Only the center Senator John Vitirman (D-PA) came out early in favor of the progress of the Parliament’s Bill, warning that the closure of the government will create chaos and could drown the nation in stagnation.

Democrats of the Senate held long lunch meetings throughout the week to discuss the best way to deal with the dilemma, and the discussion has grown so passed that it was possible to hear members of the Senate screaming through the thick oak doors in the Lindon Pinz Johnson room, off the Senate Hall.

Senate Republicans control 53 seats and need at least eight democratic votes to overcome filbuster and enhance the legislation to the final vote because Senator R-Ky.

Destroyed bills usually need 60 votes to overcome filibuster.

Republicans in the House of Representatives postponed after passing their financing bill on Tuesday and indicated that they had no intention to return to Washington before the deadline for finance on Friday.

This is pressure on Democrats in the Senate, as it has become clear that if they banned the draft law of the House of Representatives, this is likely to close the government.

The draft law of the House of Representatives appears to be in a severe danger to failure until Thursday, when the majority leader of the Senate DN.Y declared in the Senate Hall that he would vote for progress in this procedure.

Shomer admitted that the draft law that was drafted by the house was “very bad”, but he warned of the consequences of the possible closure that would be “much worse.”

He said that the closure would give Trump and Eileon Musk, the leader of the government efficiency Ministry, to destroy biological government services at a rate much faster than they can now. “

Schumer told reporters on Thursday evening that the efforts to pass a 30 -day clean financing bill had failed to obtain any Republican support.

Schumer’s decision sparked an angry and angry reaction from the liberal Democrats, such as MP Alexandria Okasio Cortez (DN.Y), who accused him of “betrayal.”

After learning Schumer’s decision, OCASIO-Cortez told the correspondents that “there is a deep feeling of anger and betrayal.”

This is not only about progressive Democrats. This is in all areas, the entire party. “

Okasio Cortez said that Shomer had betrayed the Democrats in the House of Representatives in the areas that Trump won in 2024, which received very difficult votes against the bill earlier this week. Only one democratic voice in favor of this procedure in the House of Representatives.

She said that these vulnerable Democrats in the House of Representatives took a difficult vote “to defend the American people, in order to defend social security, medicaid and medicare, just because some Democrats in the Senate.”

She said, “I think it is a huge slap in her face.”

Fetterman applauded Okasio Cortez’s criticism, on the pretext that it was and other liberals had no end to end the closure of the government.

“I hope you can

“I will stand on what I believe in is the right thing to do but ask it,” What is the exit plan once the government is closed? “What about all millions of Americans who will be affected by their lives?”

“What about those who will not have any salary? He said,” She will have her salary. “

With a political coverage of Shomer, nine other Democrats voted to strengthen the bill on Friday afternoon.

In addition to Fetterman, Sens. Catterine Cortez-Masto (D -Nev.), Dick Durbin (D-Lel.), John Fetterman (D-PA.

The Senate looked and rejected several amendments before voting to pass the bill.

One of the amendments sponsored by Senator Tami Dakright have repeated the old warriors who were expelled from their federal functions during the Trump era.

Another sponsored by Senator Chris van Holin (D-MD) would cancel the government competence section.

Senator Jeff Jeff Merkeley would fill the cancellation of $ 20 billion to finance the execution of the tax department for the Republicans in the House of Representatives in the draft law.

He would have sponsored the fourth by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) That would tell the discounts for the external assistance recommended by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency.

Republicans in the Senate beat all democratic amendments, and a majority of the two parties defeated Paul. If the members of the Senate made any changes to the draft law, it would have been required to legislate the parliament for the final approval, which would have tried its legislation after the deadline for financing.