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Chuck Schumer kills push from Democrats for government shutdown

Senate Democrats are betting voters will know who to blame for a shutdown, Eric Garcia reports



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer averted a government shutdown by supporting a Republican-passed stopgap spending bill, overriding some Democratic senators who wanted to oppose it. Schumer feared a shutdown would allow further spending cuts by Republicans and Trump, and believed Republicans would be blamed more than Democrats in the event of a shutdown, based on polling data.

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