The US Senate passes the gap financing bill to avoid the closure of the government

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On Friday evening, the US Senate passed a bill to avoid the government’s closure after a handful of Democrats abandoned their resistance to Republican -backed management.

The Senate voted 54-46 to continue financing the government, just hours before the closure began.

The Republican Senator Rand Paul voted against this measure, while the democratic Jane Shaheen and the independent Angus King, who followed with the Democrats, helped.

In a previous crucial procedural vote, some Republican Democrats helped pay this measure, which will finance the federal government until September 30. The leader of the minority in the Senate Chuck ShomerAlong with eight other Democrats and possessed the Republicans to bring the so -called continuous decision to the final vote.

Republicans control the Senate, but they have been asking for a “super channel” to agree to the procedural vote, which has overcome a possible occurrence. The draft law is now heading to President Donald Trump’s office to sign.

The final vote in a week of tense talks between Democrats, who struggled to unify it behind a strategy to negotiate with the Republicans. Although they control both Congress rooms, Republicans lack super generations and need help from all over the corridor to bring the bill to vote.

The Republican Law includes not satisfied with the Democrats. Some Democratic lawmakers expressed his fears that he was their hands Trump A very large space for the age of its agenda during the next six months. However, Democrats did not want to close it to close the government, which the president and the Republicans have made clear that they would do.

Schumer was initially regained strongly against the pause bill, but he reflected his position and helped persuade others in his gathering to vote in favor of this measure.

There was a risk that Trump and close consultant Elon Musk would use the operation to stop as Executive energy extractShomer argued, noting that Musk and the so -called government efficiency management (DOGE) can accelerate the frenzy to reduce costs with fewer checks on their strength.

Trump praised Schumer for his support for the bill: “I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he really did the right thing.

Schumer’s support for the draft law paved the way for other Democrats in the Senate to give his followers.

After the procedural vote, Senator Dick Dorbin, a great democracy, said, “The last thing we have to do is to drown our country in more chaos and turmoil by closing the government” while Trump and holds “the chainsus to the workforce of the federal government and freeze federal financing illegally.”

Shaheen said that he “plays in the hands of the Republicans” by closing it that would give musk and Trump “a non -dedicated authority to continue to dismantle the federal government.

However, Schumer is criticized by some in the party to do so, especially at home.

Before voting on Friday, Hakim Jeffrez, the best democratic in the House of Representatives, said that his gathering “strongly opposes the Party Republican Playing Bill”, saying that Trump and Moussa made a “false choice” between GAP suspension and government closure. But Jeffrez refused to say whether he had lost confidence in Shomer.

Democratic actress Nancy Pelosi, a former spokeswoman in the House of Representatives, also took a criticism of Shomer before voting. “Let’s be clear: not a good option for the American people. But this wrong option that some buy instead of fighting is unacceptable.”

“I hope Democrats in the Senate will understand that there is nothing smart.” “These games will not deceive anyone.”