Every Democratic Member Of Congress Needs To Do What Bernie Is Doing

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25. In the final Senate vote [...] Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of NH voted for the bill and was the only Democrat to do so.

How some Senate Democrats sided with Republicans to vote against government shutdown

The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine Democrats and one independent, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted in favor of cloture. That vote allowed the bill to pass with a simple majority in the final vote.

The final vote: About an hour after the advance vote, the Senate voted 54-46 to approve the bill.

Schumer and seven other Democratic senators who joined him to end debate on the bill voted against the measure in the final vote.

In announcing his decision Thursday, Schumer said the shutdown would be more damaging to the country because it would give Trump and billionaire Elon Musk greater leeway to cut federal spending. “As bad as passing the CR (continuing resolution) is, as I said, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option,” Schumer said in his statement.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/03/14/how-senate-voted-against-shutdown/82403575007/