Speaking on the Senate Floor Thursday evening, Sen. Chuck Schumer said that he would be voting for the continuing resolution that was passed in the Republican-controlled House.
"While the bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse," Schumer said, adding that the "Republican bill is a terrible option. It is not a clean CR, it is deeply partisan, it doesn’t address far too many of this country’s needs, but I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even more power vio a government shutdown is a far worse option."
He said that "no one on my side of the aisle wants a government shutdown."
In private comments during a Thursday Democrat luncheon, Schumer told his colleagues that he would be voting in favor of the CR, two people familiar to the matter told Politico.
