On Friday, the US Senate rejected two measures to fund the government as a shutdown loomed. Both measures needed 60 votes to pass. The Senate rejected a Trump-backed House-passed stopgap bill 44-48 and blocked a Democrat version 47-45. The Trump-backed stopgap bill would have funded the government until November 21. Democrat Schumer’s version of the measure to avert a government shutdown would have funded far-left NPR and other Marxist pet projects. Democrat Senator John Fetterman voted with Republicans, and Republican Senator Rand Paul voted with Democrats to block the measures. “If anyone believes that we’re on a rocket sled to autocracy, why would we hand our, a shuttered government over to President Trump or to Vought at OMB,” Fetterman said. After the Senate leaves on…
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