The amended package will still have to be passed by the House and sent to Trump for his signature, a process that could take days
The compromise legislation authorizes government funding through 30 January 2026 and undoes the firings of federal workers that the White House carried out after the shutdown began. It also guarantees retroactive pay for furloughed federal workers and those who stayed on the job during the shutdown, and prevents further layoffs through January. Included in the compromise are three appropriations bill that will authorize spending through the 2026 fiscal year for the departments of agriculture and veterans affairs, among others.
The compromise does not resolved the issue of the Affordable Care Act premiums, which one study forecast would jump by an average of 26% if the tax credits were allowed to expire.
As part of the deal, Thune said he would allow a vote on a bill to deal with the credits by the second week of December. But even if it succeeds, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson has said he will not put such a measure on the floor.
People are going to, but Schumer is at least saying he’s against it, and wasn’t one of the votes.
He’s not a leader, he was there to relay orders from the DNC to politicians, and any “power” he had with that was the DNC bankrupting someone’s state party if they refused to obey.
Without a corrupt DNC backing him, no one cares what Schumer says/thinks.
It’s a big reason why Schumer needs replaced in leadership asap.
He’s completely useless, so we might as well give it to a young/popular senator. Someone that Dem voters like at least. Everytime Schumer steps in front of a mic, it depresses Dem turnout.
Quick edit:
To be clear, this is how every neoliberal “led”.
And why I hate people saying “Well, Pelosi was good at whipping votes”…
She was just willing to bankrupt entire state parties handing seats to republicans if anyone with a D by their name didn’t do what the neoliberala running the DNC wanted.
That was never a good thing.
But now we’re returning to a bottom-up structure. Where elected reps answer to voters, and all the DNC does is run unbiased primaries every four years and ensures the state parties are funded enough to compete.
We don’t want a powerful DNC, that’s been the problem for 30-50 years now…