Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is urging Senate Democrats to defy Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and vote against a stopgap funding bill and allow the federal government to partially shut down.
It is a rare instance of Democrat congressional leadership being at odds, with Pelosi, 83, who led House Democrats for 20 years, asking lawmakers to defy the party’s Senate leader.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America,” Pelosi said Friday in a statement ahead of the Senate’s vote on a continuing resolution that passed the House on Tuesday by a 217-213 margin.
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