{"id":179,"date":"2025-03-14T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:09:03","slug":"10-senate-dems-join-republicans-to-pass-government-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"10 Senate Dems join Republicans to pass government spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer was right &#8211; they would have been blamed for shutting down the government. The final vote was 62-38. Formal vote later tonight. Other Democrats are &quot;outraged&quot;.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/senate-passes-gop-spending-bill-with-backing-from-schumer-democrats\/?bypass_key=ZnB4OWJNVGJzNCtSNC9kTmppVlVrQT09OjpZa3REYkRaQ01GUk1aMUpMZDA1WVdHUkpWR2d2UVQwOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=39017095&amp;utm_source=Sailthru\">Schumer has defended his decision by arguing that a shutdown is a political loser for Democrats that would further embolden the Elon Musk\u2013run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and empower the administration to pick and choose which federal agency services are nonessential. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRoFrMFsfqc?si=XpFVNx5xSen_X1WP\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer was right &#8211; they would have been blamed for shutting down the government. The final vote was 62-38. Formal vote later tonight. Other Democrats are &quot;outraged&quot;.&#0160; Schumer has defended his decision by arguing that a shutdown is a political loser for Democrats that would further embolden the Elon Musk\u2013run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}