Chuck Schumer says he will vote to advance GOP funding bill amid Democratic divisions over shutdown strategy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Second, they object to provisions that would cut non-defense domestic spending by billions of dollars, including a hit to the District of Columbia's budget, while boosting military spending -- a move they see as sacrificing Democratic priorities for GOP priorities.
44% : "While the consequences of a shutdown are real, Democrats bear no responsibility in fact or in public perception if they continue to support a clean CR or clean 30-day CR.
23% : But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option," he added.
22% : First, they had no input in developing it -- some in the party fear that voting for this would empower Johnson and President Trump to dictate outcomes without negotiating with Democrats to earn their votes.
20% : That discombobulated approach clashes with the fact that Trump and Johnson have said they don't want an appropriations deal for a fiscal year that is already half over, as they want to move on to their party-line budget bill to address taxes, immigration and other priorities.
19% : In a new Quinnipiac national poll, 53% of registered voters said they would blame Trump or Republicans in Congress if the government shuts down; 32% said they'd blame Democrats.
17% : That included Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., who called the bill "dangerous"; Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who said it'd "give unchecked power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk"; Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who blasted it as "a grab bag of extreme policies"; Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who called it "a terrible deal" that'd hurt Virginia.
14% : "It's not really a decision, it's a Hobson's choice: Either proceed with the bill before us or risk Donald Trump throwing America into the chaos of a shutdown.

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