Voters Demand Democrats Grow A Spine| AOC v. Schumer| Democrats’ Civil War| Government Stays Open #1630

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

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David does The News for March 15, 2025

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0:00.0	The fight over the 2025 budget is finally over. The government is funded through September 30th.
0:08.9	A shutdown has been averted. The continuing resolution signed into law by Trump Saturday. Funding
0:16.6	stays at 2024 levels. These are the levels negotiated when Joe Biden was president.
0:24.6	These are the spending levels negotiated when Chuck Schumer was majority leader because Democrats
0:31.3	controlled the Senate.
0:33.0	It's pretty much the 2024 budget.
0:37.7	It cuts spending by about $13 billion, but increases spending for defense by about
0:44.9	$6 billion.
0:45.8	So we're looking at about, let's say, $8 billion in cuts, which is not a lot considering
0:53.1	2025 the budget was $7 trillion.
0:59.8	This is the continuing resolution that passed the House on Tuesday by a vote of 217 to 213.
1:07.8	Friday, the Senate, by a vote of 54 to 46, passed the House's version of that
1:13.7	continuing resolution after Senate Minority Leader Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York,
1:19.3	urged his colleagues to avert a shutdown, bite the bullet, vote for it. Schumer said
1:26.1	there were a lot of things in the continuing resolution he
1:29.6	didn't like, but he added a government shutdown would be far, far worse. Democratic Senator John
1:37.1	Federman at Pennsylvania and Democrat from Nevada, Catherine Mastow announced early. they would break with House Democrats and vote for the
1:47.9	continuing resolution. Now, this is being seen as a major break with House Democrats because only
1:54.4	Jared Golden of Maine. Jared Golden of Maine was the only House Democrat to vote for the
2:00.6	continuing resolution.
2:02.4	House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, is not throwing Schumer a lifeline.
2:08.5	He is not coming to Schumer's defense.
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