Key Senate Vote Fails, Leaving No Clear Path to Avert Oct. 1 Shutdown

TIME

The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.

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00:00Donald Trump would rather shut down the government than even talk to Democrats

00:04about lowering the cost of health care for Americans, which is what is our goal.

00:10And Republicans, unfortunately, sadly, dutifully obeyed.

00:15Senate Republicans just voted to shut the government down with a partisan bill

00:19that gives Donald Trump everything he wants and nothing the American people need.

00:24To my Republican colleagues, inaction is not an option.

00:30If you want Democratic votes, you need to work with us.

00:35Compromise is a very basic principle every American understands.

00:40And if Republicans don't bother working with Democrats just because Donald Trump said so,

00:46it will be a Republican shutdown.

00:49Republicans control all of government.

00:51The House, the Senate, the White House, the American people know who to blame.

00:55The bare minimum here is for Republican leadership to simply sit down with Democratic leadership to hammer out a path forward.

01:06Like I said before, I've been available now for weeks.

01:10And the Democrats seem more intent, as has been pointed out, in satisfying, I think, their very leftist base,

01:21who is desperately wanting to see a government shutdown because they think it's politically advantageous to do that,

01:26rather than keep the government funded.

01:28Republicans want to keep the government open.

01:29And the Democrats, based on what I believe is the Schumer strategy, is a shutdown strategy.

01:35It is their goal to shut down the government.

01:38The left wing of their party is demanding it.

01:42And Chuck Schumer is snakebit.

01:44He's afraid to do anything that they won't want him to do.

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