{"id":7309,"date":"2025-03-14T21:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-democratic-leadership-split-on-funding-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:49:18","slug":"senate-democratic-leadership-split-on-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-democratic-leadership-split-on-funding-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democratic leadership split on funding bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Democrats&#8217; fight over their shutdown strategy is extending all the way to the upper echelons of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday vote to get the House GOP funding patch over a procedural hurdle divided Senate Democratic leadership, with 10 members of the full caucus helping break a filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stressed to reporters on Thursday, after he announced his decision to help advance the bill, that he was letting each member come to their own decision \u2014 an indication that he wasn\u2019t going to try to squeeze anyone to oppose or support the bill.<\/p>\n<p>But it still marked a high-profile split within Schumer\u2019s leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Dick Durbin of Illinois joined Schumer in helping advance the House Republican bill, just hours before the midnight shutdown deadline. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who chairs the Senate Democratic campaign arm, also voted to advance the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The other members at the Senate leadership table \u2014 Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Mark Warner of Virginia, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Cory Booker of New Jersey \u2014 voted against breaking a filibuster, alongside and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Senate Democratic Caucus opposed the procedural motion, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats&#8217; fight over their shutdown strategy is extending all the way to the upper echelons of the Senate. The Friday vote to get the House GOP funding patch over a procedural hurdle divided Senate Democratic leadership, with 10 members of the full caucus helping break a filibuster. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stressed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}