Congress averts government shutdown after Senate passes stopgap funding bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Trump praised Schumer for announcing he would support the measure, telling reporters after the vote Friday: "I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he did the right thing, really.
40% : The rising tensions within the party spilled into public view as lawmakers raced toward a shutdown that would have had far-reaching consequences across the federal government - highlighting the struggle Democrats face in attempting to counter Trump and the Republican monopoly on power in Washington.
32% : The initial vote, while procedural, had been closely watched by Democrats across the country, who saw it as a test of their party leaders' willingness to fight Trump.
31% : At the urging of prominent Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, voters had been flooding senators' offices with calls urging them to block the bill and take on Trump for his dismantling of the federal government.
30% : Schumer argued his party had only bad options when it came to shutting down the government - possibly for months - to challenge Trump, or accepting a GOP bill that Democrats have warned would cut spending to programs like veterans' health care or Washington, DC, firefighters and police.
27% : "Once I had voted for cloture, it was an opportunity to pass the bill, and I thought it was more honest to vote for it," Shaheen told CNN, adding: "I thought, much as I didn't like the CR, I thought a government shutdown would be worse and would give Trump and Elon Musk and the DOGE operation more of an opportunity to fire people, to shut down agencies and to close the work of the government.
19% : The CR is a bad bill, but as bad as the CR is, I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option," he continued.

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