In another step towards irrelevance, ten Democratic senators backed the GOP's six month continuing resolution, effectively forgoing the budget process for fiscal year 2025. The 62-38 vote to invoke cloture permitted a 54-46 vote to pass the bill.
The vote will give the President unprecedented authority to direct spending, though Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) insisted the alernative would be worse. "I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option."
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