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Senate Democrats eye plan to allow vote on GOP funding bill, avoid shutdown

Senate Democrats are considering a plan that would pave the way for a GOP bill to keep the government funded for six months in exchange for a doomed-to-fail vote on their own 30-day alternative, facing an uncomfortable choice between allowing the Republican measure to pass or letting the government shut down.

Bloomberg on MSN · 1d

Schumer Says Democrats Will Block GOP Plan to Avert Shutdown

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said his party would block a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown on Saturday and urged the GOP to accept a Democratic plan to provide funding through April 11 instead.

NPR · 7h

Senate Democrats face major dilemma: help GOP pass funding bill or trigger shutdown

The government runs out of funding Friday at midnight, leaving Democrats to decide whether to help Republicans pass a bill to avoid a shutdown or block the bill and be blamed for triggering one.

Trump, Democrats and government shutdown

Deseret News on MSN · 1h

Senate Democrats to provide votes for Trump-backed resolution to avoid government shutdown

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said he would vote to end the filibuster, indicating sufficient support among other party members to allow vote on Republican bill.

NBC News · 5h

Trump: Government shutdown would be 'purely on the Democrats'

President Trump said Democrats would be "purely to blame" for a government shutdown after House Republicans passed a funding bill that is uncertain to pass in the Senate.

Yahoo · 3h

Democrats look to save face in shutdown battle

Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted six-month stopgap spending bill.

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Senate Democrats refuse to go along with GOP spending plan, as shutdown deadline nears

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that ...

CNN's Manu Raju: Enough Senate Democrats Appear Ready To Pass House GOP Spending Plan

CNN's Capitol Hill correspondent Manu Raju reports on the struggle taking place within the Senate Democratic caucus over ...

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Chuck Schumer caves on shutdown fight, says that would be ‘far worse’ than GOP plan

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday evening backed off his shutdown threat and said he will vote for the ...

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Democrats Slammed Over Shockingly Awful Plan to Beat Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio fiercely defended President Trump’s approach to negotiating a peace deal between Ukraine and ...

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Top Republican and Democrat plan competing bills to curb VA firings, protect veterans

Thousands of veterans have lost their jobs across federal agencies in sweeping cuts by the Trump administration, according to ...

Democrats slammed over apparent ‘copy and paste’ social media statements

Social media posts from Democrats with the same statement coincided with a promise Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, ...

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Democrats’ first big chance to check Trump may make them look even weaker

Washington Democrats finally have a first point of leverage against President Donald Trump — but it comes with a dilemma that could leave them looking even more hapless than they have so far in his ...

Democrats win Minnesota state House special election, setting up shared control of the chamber

An existing power-sharing agreement reached last month will keep a Republican speaker in power in the state House.

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