House approves bill to keep government open as Senate Democrats take heat for threate

The House passed a short-term extension of government funding late Thursday after Republican leaders, with help from President Trump, cobbled together enough GOP votes to overcome an internal revolt.
Still, the possibility of a federal shutdown moved closer to a certainty after Senate Democrats rallied against the GOP proposal, announcing they would not lend their votes to a bill that did not reflect their priorities on immigration, government spending and other issues.


“My Democratic colleagues’ demands on illegal immigration, at the behest of their far-left base, have crowded out all other important business,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday night. “And now they are threatening to crowd out the needs of veterans, military families, opioid treatment centers and every other American who relies on the federal government — all over illegal immigration.”

Senators of both parties voted to open debate on the House bill late Thursday, but Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats remained opposed to the measure and proposed an spending extension that would last just a few days to allow talks on a broader agreement to continue.
“We have to sit down together and solve this, with the president or without,” he said.
Republican leaders rejected that suggestion. They did not lay out a Plan B to pursue if the House bill is ultimately rejected, except to finger Democrats for a shutdown.
“I ask the American people to understand this: The only people in the way of keeping the government open are Senate Democrats,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday night. “Whether there is a government shutdown or not is entirely up to them.”

Senate GOP leaders prepared to force Democrats into a series of uncomfortable votes, aimed at splitting their ranks by pitting moderates from states that Trump won against party leaders and the handful of outspoken liberals considering a run for the presidency.
For one, Republicans attached a long-term extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and delays to several unpopular health-care taxes. The bill does not include protections for “dreamers,” immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children or who overstayed their visas as children, a top Democratic priority.

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Fucking turtle face McConnel and fucking Ryan are trying to shift the public blame to Democrat if shutdown happens!

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Gop wants to shut down the government over something 87% of americans agree with, and that's giving dreamers a path towards citizenship.
GOP will you let your racist ways get in the middle of funding our government? and threatening to crowd out the needs of veterans, military families, opioid treatment centers and every other American who relies on the federal government?

that's the way i see it

No CR has been passed yet!

i mean i thought this was obvious.

if you need to go pick up the kids but your husband wont hand over the keys to the car until you give him money for the bills, it's kinda the husbands fault that you cant pick up the kids.

why in the hell would republicans get blamed for this when they're all set to pass government funding? they're not the ones asking for extras unrelated to government funding.

were you all just lying to yourselves? well lets hope the american people's logic is as bad as the majority of the users on this forum.

Umm ,if Dems agree it’s going to be the same thing next month .

Wtf how does your example apply?

Idk maybe because republicans control all 3 branches of government. Maybe when you're handed responsibly to lead you can't just point fingers. If you want to be the boss and shit hits the fan then you have to be held responsible.

If republicans are all set to pass the budget then they should fucking do it. If they need democrat votes then they need to consider democrat inputs.

I happen to believe you are not a dreamer sir. Either a redneck or paisa kid who is trying to feel more american than hamburgers. ( Quick tip burgers are not originally american )

Perhaps because the Republicans are ambushing Democrats by attaching CHIP, a piece of legislation that is bipartisan by itself and attacking them because they don’t want to fall in line with the racist conservative agenda.

Goddamn there are so many Trump supporting Dreamers on here. If Tucker Carlson saw this and assumed that this group of people was representative of Dreamers in general, he would become the biggest amnesty supporter ever.