Kilmeny Duchardt to Newsmax: Threat of Shutdown Split Democrats

Following the breaking news of the Senate passing a continuing resolution bill, congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt told Newsmax on Friday that “the threat of this shutdown has quite literally split the Democrats.”

Mere hours before the 11:59 deadline, the Senate passed a six-month stopgap bill by a vote of 54-46 to fund the government until September. Despite assurances to the contrary, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., went against the majority in his party and his own intentions from a day before and voted with the Republicans. 

Duchardt noted that Schumer “was not in favor of this CR but he agreed that shutting down the government would be worse.”

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