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• Schumer clashes with liberal colleagues over House GOP funding bill - March 14, 2025

• Alexander Bolton, The Hill -

  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington on Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding bill, splitting with fellow Senate Democrats who are loudly calling for the bill’s defeat.

  Schumer’s announcement provides crucial political cover to Senate Democratic centrists who are thinking about voting for the House-passed bill to keep the government from shutting down, even though they have serious concerns about the House bill.

  Centrists such as Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) have come under intense pressure from Senate Democratic liberals and progressive activists outside of Congress to defeat the House bill.

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