Senate votes to avoid government shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : A fourth sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would have codified the cuts to foreign assistance recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency.
50% : President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law.
46% : Another sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) would have eliminated the Department of Government Efficiency.
45% : A third sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) would have eliminated the $20 billion rescission to IRS tax enforcement funding that House Republicans included in the bill.
40% : Some Democratic lawmakers warned that would allow Trump and his advisors to shift around funding to favor their own priorities, regardless of what Congress wanted. Democrats led by Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, urged their colleagues to defeat the House proposal and instead pass a clean 30-day government funding stopgap.
40% : She said those vulnerable House Democrats took a tough vote "to defend the American people, in order to defend Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, just to see some Senate Democrats" acquiesce to Musk.
33% : Leading progressive Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also led the charge from the left to kill the House-passed bill, helping to whip up strong opposition to the bill from party activists.
29% : He argued that accepting the House GOP bill would only embolden Trump and Musk.
23% : " He said a shutdown would give Trump and Elon Musk, the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, "carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now." Schumer told reporters Thursday evening that efforts to instead pass a clean 30-day funding bill failed to pick up any Republican support.
23% : Ocasio-Cortez said Schumer had betrayed House Democrats in districts that Trump won in 2024 who took very tough votes against the bill earlier this week.
17% : One amendment sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) would have reinstated veterans who were fired from their federal jobs under Trump.

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