The last time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened to withhold Democratic votes and force a government shutdown, it ended in a bitter internal feud that, at one point, seemed it might cost him his job.
Now, just four months later, Schumer may be headed down a similar path that could spark more Democratic fury.
As he tries to stop Republicans from approving a $9.4 billion batch of President Donald Trump’s spending cuts, GOP senators see Schumer’s threat that Democrats will retaliate by not funding the government this fall as a bluff. Republicans are placing early bets that this latest shutdown talk will lead to the same conclusion: Schumer caving.
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“I don’t take it serious,” Sen. John Curtis (R-UT), a centrist Republican with a bipartisan
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