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Schumer says deal has been made to avoid government shutdown

by John Harney
September 30, 2021
in Government, Politics, US News
Chuck Schumer, Senate, Republicans, Democrats, spending bill, debt ceiling, national debt,

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., shown on March 25, 2021, on Wednesday said lawmakers had reached an agreement to avoid a government shutdown on Friday. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday lawmakers had reached an agreement to avoid a government shutdown on Friday, extending government spending until Dec. 3.

The legislation, scheduled for a Senate vote Thursday morning, though important, will resolve perhaps the least of Schumer’s worries.

Federal agencies, pushed to the brink of the end of the fiscal year, had been preparing for a shutdown of non-essential parts of the government after Senate Democrats failed to push through a stopgap measure that included a suspension of the debt ceiling. Sixty votes are required to proceed on most legislation in the evenly divided Senate.

Stripped of divisive language, the stopgap spending bill should easily pass both chambers. But the threat of a catastrophic default is less than three weeks away and Democrats still have no solution to that problem.

At the same time, the main pieces of President Joe Biden’s massive domestic agenda remain mired in Congress over internecine Democratic squabbles, and had been shadowed by the threat of a shutdown.

“Now, we are ready to move forward,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “We have an agreement on the C.R., the continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown and we should be voting on that tomorrow morning.”

The House on Wednesday approved a stand-alone debt limit measure, but that, too, is almost certain to fail in the Senate.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that without congressional action, the U.S. risks a disastrous default around Oct. 18.

Republicans have said they won’t vote for an increase to the government’s borrowing ability as Democrats prepare to spend $3.5 trillion on social programs via separate legislation.

Democrats themselves remain at odds on that plan. The U.S. House is scheduled to vote Thursday on Biden’s $550 billion infrastructure package, but progressive Democrats have pledged to vote it down without action on the broader social-spending measure.

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