10 Senate Democrats Defy Pelosi, Left-Wing Base To Advance GOP Spending Bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The Senate voted 62 to 38 Friday evening to advance a GOP spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown set to occur Saturday at 12:01 a.m. Nine Senate Democrats joined Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to vote "yes" on the cloture vote to advance the stopgap government funding bill that will fund government operations through the end of September.
54% : The stopgap funding measure does include an additional $6 billion for veterans' healthcare, modest increases for defense spending and Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding to patch an operating shortfall that started under the Biden administration and continues a $20 billion rescission request in IRS enforcement funding.
43% : Trump wrote.
41% : "It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid, and protect Medicare," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN Thursday, despite the bill not touching any of these entitlement programs.
32% : " Trump praised Schumer's decision to back the stopgap government funding bill in a post on Truth Social Friday.

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