Senator #ChuckSchumer of NY, the Democratic leader, on Thurs broke w/many in his party & said he would vote for a Republican-written stopgap spending bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight deadline on Friday, making a forceful case for why #Democrats could not allow a shutdown that most of them have demanded. “A shutdown would give Donald #Trump, Elon #Musk & DOGE the keys to the city, state & country,” he said on the #Senate floor.
The New York Times · Trump Administration Highlights: Schumer Says Enough Democrats Will Vote to Avert Government Shutdown
@leswarden@mastodon.world@Nonilex Maybe it’s time to turn the Democratic leadership over to some invertebrate. 