Senate approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, sending to Trump for signature

Colorado Democratic senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper both voted against the measure.

https://sentinelcolorado.com/nation-world/nation/senate-approves-funding-bill-hours-before-shutdown-deadline-sending-to-trump-for-signature/

Abstimmung im US-Senat: Haushalt gebilligt - Shutdown verhindert

Der Auszahlungsstopp ist abgewendet: Nach dem Repräsentantenhaus hat auch der Senat in den USA einen Übergangshaushalt gebilligt - dank der Unterstützung einiger Demokraten.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/shutdown-usa-senat-102.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482

This guy obviously sucks at Math!

Via #RawStory

Defiant #Senate Minority Ldr #ChuckSchumer defended his decision Fri 2 vote in favor of cloture 4 #Republican-backed #FundingBill that would avert a looming government #shutdown, & brushed off threats 2 his leadership position

In an interview..shortly after his vote roiled his fellow #Democrats, #Schumer stood firm, [insisting] that “as bad as the [continuing resolution] was,” a government shutdown “would be far worse.”

https://www.rawstory.com/government-shutdown-2671332524/

Excerpt from today's #NYT

#US #Senate #Politics #Democrats #Schumer #Caved #Government #Shutdown #GOP

The #Democrats in the US are as spineless as the #SPD in Germany. Fucking useless.

Wall Street is convinced there will be no government shutdown: Dow up today by 674 points.

It's Friday, so Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social joins us for another Emptywheel Friday on the show. Talking #CR, #shutdown, Dems need for messaging, #DOGEdisaster & more. 5ET/2PT https://youtu.be/ZSPpsNW_vqg, nicolesandler.com, or get the podcast later

This whole kerfuffle over the #shutdown / #CR drama reminds me that #elections matter, and if the #Puritopians had just eff’ing voted we would not be here, with the collapse of democracy all around us, shouting into the void.

Democrats: Are you the party of workers or not? NO CR!

'This year is different': Federal workers’ union asks Dems to vote for government shutdown
https://www.alternet.org/federal-workers-government-shutdown/

March 14, 2025 LIVE
Democratic House Leaders Hold News Conf. Amid Looming Gov't #Shutdown

House Democratic Leader #HakeemJeffries (D-NY) holds a news conference as the Senate considers a continuing resolution to fund the government before a midnight deadline.
#cspan #pressconference
https://www.c-span.org/event/news-conference/democratic-house-leaders-hold-news-conf-amid-looming-govt-shutdown/431721

#Unpopular position:

I'm as frustrated as anybody else about #Democrats' inability or unwillingness so far to put up real #resistance to the reich-wing agenda. Perhaps more so: my wife works with refugees; every day her clients are being screwed and her colleagues fired.

I'm not sure that Schumer is wrong, though, to decide this isn't the hill we die on. Maybe and maybe not, but it's a little funny to say he "folded" or call him a "coward" when he had to know how unpopular his move would be with his own constituents.

Maybe Schumer was right, maybe wrong. But I think we have to look at the #consequences of a government #shutdown and decide if they would promote or damage our goals. Schumer clearly believes the latter, and he isn't an idiot.

That said: whether this was the hill to die on or not, there are issues worth fighting for, and it's taking waaaaaay too long for Congressional Dems to do so.

**Final edit: both MA senators voted NO on cloture. Call to thank them!**

Massachusetts Voters:

Warren and Markey are both unclear on whether they are going to vote for cloture on the CR although rumors are they will vote no. Regardless, call them to encourage them to vote NO on cloture and NO on the CR.

Markey: https://www.markey.senate.gov/contact

Warren: https://www.warren.senate.gov/contact/office-locations