Democrats in Washington have softened their early opposition to the Republicans’ tiered approach to government spending, signaling a new openness to supporting the House GOP bill and averting a government shutdown at week’s end.
In a Monday letter to House Democrats, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his top deputies suggested that Democrats may support the Republicans’ short-term funding bill to keep the government open into early next year — a sharp change of tone that could pave the way for easy passage when the bill hits the chamber floor on Tuesday.
Joined by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Jeffries stopped short of saying party leaders are ready to endorse the GOP proposal, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which was introduced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the weekend.
But he also didn’t rule it out.
If the stopgap is truly “fund government as-is until January & February” like the article says, then it’s great for Democrats. Keep this whole game of Republicans infighting with each other over tons of unrelated riders going for another couple months.
That is what it is. The previous proposed bills had a bunch of “kick trans people out of the military” sort of shit.
The new CR isn’t a full CR, it notably does not have funding for ukraine or israel, but it is basically just business as usual. The fact that a significant portion of the dem caucus is voting for it has already angered a number of the Rep caucus (who will be voting against it).