Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned Republicans that Democrats would not vote for any spending bill that did not emerge from a comprehensive bipartisan negotiation — suggesting that a bare-bones stopgap extending funding into January would be the only alternative.
Democrats are pushing for an agreement to increase domestic spending alongside the military funding hike Republicans seek, as well as an accord on legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
“If we are not able to reach a global deal by this Friday on these many issues, there will be a temptation to do a short-term funding bill with some of these items, but not others,” Schumer said. “That won’t work. We should do all of these things together instead of a piecemeal, week-by-week fashion.”
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