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The Senate voted 54-45 against advancing Republican legislation to continue paying U.S. troops, Capitol Police and other essential federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown.
Democrat Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania each voted in favor of the proposal.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said the bill would have paid air traffic controllers, TSA agents, park rangers, federal law enforcement, ICE and DPS agents throughout the shutdown.
“Tomorrow, federal workers will miss a full paycheck because of the Democrat shutdown,” Thune said before the vote. “Do they think people working ought to get paid?”
Speaking against the bill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, “It’s nothing more than another tool for Trump to hurt federal workers and American families and to keep this shutdown going for as long as he wants. We will not give Donald Trump a license to play politics with people’s livelihoods. That’s why we oppose this.”
Of course, Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) admitted earlier this week that her party is using U.S. families suffering from the government shutdown as leverage against Republicans.
Democrats are openly hoping to keep the shutdown going with the maximum amount of damage inflicted so they can score political points as the lapdog establishment media pushes the narrative that Trump is to blame for the debacle.
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