Schumer announced he would choose to keep the government open, the possibility of avoiding closure

Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday night that he planned to choose to keep the government open, indicating that there would be almost certain there was enough Democratic voices to advance the GOP House funding bill before the closing deadline at the end of Friday.
In the words On the senate floor, Schumer conceded the closure of the government was a worse result.
“While the Republican Bill is very bad, the potential for closing has consequences for America that is far worse. Surely, the Republican Bill is a terrible choice,” he said. “This is not a clean CR” or sustainable resolution, he said. “This is very partisan. This is not too handling the needs of this country, but I believe that letting Donald Trump take more strength in the closure of the government is a much worse choice.”
Republican Party, Schumer argues, must be blamed for the “Hobson choice” that “takes us to the threshold of the disaster.”
“Except for the Congress to act, the federal government will be closed tomorrow in the middle of the night. I have said that there are many times there are no winners in the closure of the government. But of course there are victims: the most vulnerable Americans who rely on federal programs to feed their families to access medical care and continue to survive financially,” Schumer said.

The leader of the Chuck Schumer senate minority left the Democratic Caucus lunch in the US Capitol, March 13, 2025 in Washington.
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The decision to close the government will give President Donald Donald Trump and his senior advisor Elon Musk too much power to continue slaughtering their federal workers without wisdom, he stressed.
“A shutdown will give Donald Trump and Elon Musk Carte Blanche to destroy vital government services at a significant faster level than they can today. Below as the closing of Trump’s administration will have full authority to assume all programs of an unimportant personnel program, staff who do not have their promises will be re -employed,” said Schumer. “In short: A shut Down will give Donald Trump Elon Musk and move the key to the state and urban state.”
Earlier Thursday, Schumer told his Democratic colleagues during lunch closed that he would choose to clean the road for a house-gop funding law, a source who was familiar with the problem told ABC News.
The move will clean the path for the Republican party to pass a simple majority bill.
The Democratic Senate remains tightly closed after the crowd behind the door closed in front of the deadline for government funding conducting approaching.
“What happened in the caucus, still in the caucus,” said Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin when he left a weekly lunch.
“Ask other people,” Democrat Senator Cory Booker grumbled.
“I have no comments,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Some Democrats personally acknowledge that they might not have a voice to block Republican proposals to make the government funded until September, many sources told ABC News.
Tension is completely displayed at private meetings. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand shouted very loudly about the impact of the shutdown so that reporters could hear it through the wall.
A Democrat who spoke on the condition of anonymity told ABC News, “We lost this two weeks ago … We should have defeated this drum for a month.”
At that time, only Democratic Senator John Fetterman who openly signaled that he would choose to keep the government open.

Senator John Fetterman spoke with reporters outside the room during the voting in Capitol in Washington, March 13, 2025.
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The fetterman insisted that he would not surrender to the attitude he saw from party leaders after he urged Republicans to keep the government open in the past when the Democrats control the upper room.
“Never, ever, ever, once closed the government,” Fetterman told reporters in the capitol on Thursday afternoon. “Democrats, Republican, independent, anyone. Never closed the government. That is one of our core responsibilities.”
The fetterman called the political pressure “spicy” – telling reporters that he remained “consistent” in his principle belief not to choose shutdown.
The fetterman recognizes that the Republican party is “brave” to close the government, but the new Democratic students are worried that workers and cheating people depend on federal services are people who are “really will be injured.”
Now that the Republican party cleans their bill through the DPR, the Fetterman said he was sure that the battle had ended.
The fetterman said the only time used by Democrats was if the Republican party needed votes in the DPR.
“GOP was conveyed, and it effectively freezes this. And that forces us to say, ‘Are you going to close the government, or you will choose a defective CR?’ And now for me, I refuse to close the government. “
Schumer on Wednesday said the Democratic Senate would not vote needed for Republicans to advance the agreement approved by the DPR to fund the government until September. Instead, Schumer proposed a temporary step for one month to provide more time for the apropriator to negotiate and complete a full year funding bill.
Republican and White Houses, meanwhile, first direct the fingers to the Democrats if the closure occurs.
“If it is closed, it is purely to Democrats,” President Donald Trump said when he took a reporter question when he met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Oval Office on Thursday.
Trump was asked if he entered to negotiate with Democrats and he said he would do it if the Republican party asked him: “If they need me, I am there 100%there.”