Chuck Schumer Leads Senate Dems In Blocking Stopgap Bill to Reopen US Gov: ‘Republicans Tried to Bully Us’

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) led his fellow Democratic senators on Wednesday in voting against a stopgap funding bill that would have reopened the U.S. government, with Schumer saying congressional Republicans “tried to bully us” into accepting the deal. The stopgap bill, which would have kept the federal government open until Nov. 21, had already been passed in the House of Representatives before it was shot down by Senate Dems. Schumer, while speaking in the Senate on Wednesday, blamed President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers for a deal not getting done. Donald Trump and Republicans have barreled us into a shutdown, because they refuse to protect Americans’ healthcare,” Schumer said. The stopgap bill needed 60 votes to be approved, but the final vote on Wednesday was 55-45 against it.