Pelosi shades Schumer on funding bill: ‘Listen to the women’
by Emily Brooks - 03/14/25 12:36 PM ET
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday issued a blistering statement on how senators should handle a government funding vote that, without naming him, dinged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
“Democratic senators should listen to the women,” Pelosi said. “Appropriations leaders [Rep.] Rosa DeLauro [D-Conn.] and [Sen.] Patty Murray [D-Wash.] have eloquently presented the case that we must have a better choice: a four-week funding extension to keep government open and negotiate a bipartisan agreement.”
“America has experienced a Trump shutdown before – but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People,” Pelosi said.
The statement comes a day after Schumer announced that he would vote to advance the House GOP-drafted stopgap bill to fund the government until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, averting a government shutdown that would start early Saturday morning. Senate Republicans need at least eight Democrats to vote with them to advance the measure.
Schumer argued that while the continuing resolution (CR) is “very bad,” “the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” saying he believes it would allow President Trump “to take even much more power via a government shutdown.”
That position comes despite a wave of Senate Democrats opposing the funding bill, even those in competitive districts.
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