March 2025

Democrats gain from Senator Schumer

  The leader of the minority Democrats in the United States Senate, Charles Schumer (D-NY), has quietly but effectively aided the Republicans on an important spending vote, and thereby increased his own standing and perhaps the prospects of his beleaguered party.   Ten Senate Democrats led by Schumer joined with Republicans to pass a stopgap spending bill on March 14 that averted a shutdown and guaranteed the U.S.

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