Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said that Senate Democrats cannot support the Republican spending bill passed by the House of Representatives earlier this week as a government shutdown looms.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort,” Schumer told Congress on Wednesday.
“But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution (CR) without any input, any input, from Congressional Democrats.
“Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke closure on the House CR.”
Hours earlier, Donald Trump had launched into a bizarre personal attack on Schumer – the highest-ranking Jewish person in the American government – by inexplicably claiming that the New Yorker is no longer Jewish during a marathon media event alongside Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin.
Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office about his plans for tax cuts when he suddenly pivoted to rebuking Democrats and said of their Senate leader: “Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”
The president also used his sitdown with the Irish PM to hint, once again, about serving an unconstitutional third term.
