Schumer Makes First Step To Avert Govt Shutdown

January 11, 2024 Democrats, Politics

Democratic U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday said he was taking the first procedural step towards passing a stopgap funding bill to avert a partial government shutdown that otherwise would begin late next week.

He said he was advancing the temporary funding bill so the Senate can begin voting on it when it returns on Tuesday from a Martin Luther King holiday recess. Little time remains before funding runs out on Jan. 19 for some sprawling federal agencies.

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This could also be the first step in a chain of events resulting in Mike Johnson being ousted as speaker.

As we scooped this morning in @PunchbowlNews AM, Schumer announces on the floor that he is filing cloture on a shell bill that will become a short-term CR to avert shutdown Jan. 19.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 11, 2024

Schumer from Senate floor on his plans for the Senate to address the January 19th government funding shutdown deadline:”Today,I am taking the 1st procedural step for the Senate to pass a temporary extension of gov’t funding (CR) so the gov’t does not shut down on Jan. the 19th.” pic.twitter.com/zfmr5UugbI

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 11, 2024

Schumer says first CR vote to avoid shutdown is next week-“vast majority of us are all on the same page that a government shutdown would be a recipe for chaos. There are those on the hard right in the House who think they can bully their colleagues..& the country into a shutdown”

— Ramsey Touchberry (@ramsberry1) January 11, 2024