Meet the 3 Democrats who shake their party, Schumer with the support of the GOP financing package

Three Senators – Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada and John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, as well as the independent King of Angus of Maine – broke the ranks on Tuesday evening with Republicans on a GOP expense bill that would have kept the open government. And now they face the heat for that.

While the Democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer and nine other Democratic senators voted to advance a similar expenditure bill in March, they do not help their republican colleagues to obtain their last bill of credits after the finish line this time, citing several concerns, including that the package will increase the costs of health care for the Americans because it fails to extend the subsidents d’Obamacare.

“This administration does not care about the Névadans, but I do it. That is why I cannot support an expensive closure that would harm the families of Nevada and to the delivery even more power to this reckless administration,” said Cortez Masto after having voted in favor of the Bill of Republican credits on Tuesday evening. “We need a bipartite solution to combat this imminent health care crisis, but we must not exchange pain from a group of Americans for another.”

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Sense. Catherine Cortez Masto, Senator John Fetterman, and Senator Angus King broke with the Democrats to support a continuous resolution led by the Republicans. (Getty Images)

“I voted Aye to extend the ACA tax credits because I support them, but I will not vote for chaos to close our government,” said Fetterman after his vote on Tuesday evening supporting the GOP credits package. “My vote was for our country on my country. Together, we have to find a better way to follow.”

King called on his decision to support the bill “one of the most difficult votes” he took during his mandate, but, as Cortez Masto, expressed his fear that a government closure could encourage Trump, who has already hinted at the use of closure as lever for more government cuts.

“The irony of this vote is that many believe that it was an opportunity to resist Donald Trump,” said King in a video he published on social networks After voting to support the GOP credits package. “Irony, the paradox is, by closing the government, we give Donald Trump more power, and that is why I voted” yes “. I did not want to hand over Donald Trump and Russell Vought, and Stephen Miller additional to decimate the federal government.”

The decision of the senators to support the bill for republican credits aroused public criticisms of at least one of their colleagues democrats in the congress. Representative Dan Goldman, DN.Y., said that he was “very upset” to see his colleagues from the Democratic Party in the Senate “who already turned out” to the Republicans.

Meanwhile, Goldman said that Democrats in the House are “very united” to oppose the GOP credits defended by Trump.

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Senator Angus King, I-Maine, listens during an audience of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the appointment of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense on January 14, 2025, in Washington, DC (Jack Gruber-USA today)

Fox News Digital contacted Schumer to comment on the defections of the Democratic Party, but did not receive a response in time for the publication.

The Republicans, on the other hand, said that defections represent Schumer’s political power within the Democratic Party. In the end, the GOP will need eight total democrats to cross the aisle so that their continuous resolution passes.

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., turned to an assistant at a press conference in June in Capitol Hill. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

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Cortez Masto added That she has been working on phones since her vote on Tuesday evening, urging both Republicans and Democrats to come together. “

The Chad Pergram of Fox News contributed to this report