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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said Wednesday that Republicans do not have enough Democratic votes in the upper chamber to advance the House-passed GOP government funding bill to President Donald Trump’s desk, complicating GOP congressional leaders’ path to averting a shutdown ahead of the March 14 funding deadline.
Schumer is instead pushing for a 30-day continuing resolution, calling Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R., La.) stopgap funding bill to fund the government through September a “partisan path” that cannot clear the upper chamber’s 60-vote threshold for passing legislation.
“Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 [continuing resolution] that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass,” Schumer said after a closed-door meeting with his colleagues on Wednesday afternoon, also lambasting Republicans for not getting input from his party when drafting the bill.