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The Senate voted to advance a Republican-backed bill to fund the government, setting the measure on a glide-path to final passage ahead of a midnight funding deadline.
While Republicans control the Senate, they do not hold the 60 seats necessary to break a filibuster. The final vote was 62-38, as 10 Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul and all other Democrats opposed.
The vote highlights deep divisions within the Democratic party over how to respond to President Trump in his second term. The decision by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to support the funding bill sparked an intense backlash from House Democrats, who almost unanimously opposed it.
Here Are the Senate Democrats Who Helped Republicans Avert a Shutdown
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York
- Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
- Dick Durbin of Illinois
- Brian Schatz of Hawaii
- Gary Peters of Michigan
- Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
- Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
- Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
- Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats.
"I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal and this is not just progressive Democrats — this is across the board, the entire party," New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday night at a party retreat in Leesburg, Va.
"I think it is a huge slap in the face," she said.
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