Senate Democrats reversed the closing course despite Trump’s mass concerns earlier

The Democrats of the Senate earlier this year were not willing to close the government for fears of mass layoffs and deep cuts at expense, but now with a similar threat to the horizon, they do not seem ready to keep the lights on.

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., and his Caucus have further unearthed in the week when the Congress was far from Washington, DC, and they seem ready not to provide the necessary votes to avoid a partial closure of the government by September 30.

The Republicans call a fault on their position and argue that their rhetoric is hypocritical to their position earlier this year, when the Democrats of the Senate – including Schumer – voted to keep the government open.

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Leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

The head of the majority in the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., argued that their position was now entirely contrary to that which they held in March when the government was again on the edge of the closure, especially given the concern that the Trump administration and the management and budget office (OMB) advance with mass layoffs.

“The argument they advanced was that you did not want to give Trump – essentially by closing the government – carte blanche to do whatever he wants to do with these government agencies, and you know, to let the OMB make decisions on who is essential and who is not,” said Thune on “Hugh Hewitt.”

“Because they fundamentally believe that they are the government party,” he continued. “This is why I think it will be difficult, maybe very difficult for them to maintain this over a long period, but we will see.”

The OMB has circulated a note to the federal agencies this week which directed mass layoffs of federal employees beyond the typical closure of content, but Schumer has updated it for “an attempted intimidation”.

“Donald Trump has dismissed federal workers since the first day-not to govern, but to scare,” he said. “It is not new and has nothing to do with the funding of the government. These unnecessary layoffs will be canceled either in court or the administration will eventually hire workers, just as they did as recently as today.”

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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., has taken a tour of the Democrats in the Senate for their resistance to an extension of government financing. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

When asked if he was concerned about what could happen if the government closed, senator Tim Kaine, D-VA., Returned that it was a “political question”.

“This is not the way I think about it,” he told Fox News Digital. “I represent a Virginia which was ravaged by what Donald Trump did in the federal labor, the federal entrepreneurs.”

“Donald Trump does things that hurt the country,” he said. “Donald Trump told Republicans not to speak, to negotiate with Democrats on this subject.”

In March, when he appeared that Schumer would lead the Democrats to Lockstep to close the government, he fell and argued that it was a “choice of Hobson”. In the end, he and nine other Democrats in the Senate advanced the bill.

The Democrats of the Congress in the Furious time the power that the technological billionaire Elon Musk exercised and the impact of a closure on the federal workforce, given the waves of the layoffs and the acquisitions which already take place in the hands of the Department of Efficiency of the Government of Musk (DOGE).

He declared during a speech on the Senate soil, a closure “would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk Carte Blanche to destroy the vital government services”, and this would leave the GOP “would weapon their majority to the picking which parts of the government to reopen”.

Quick advance for today and the only democrat in the Senate publicly supporting the short-term financing extension of the GOP, or continuous resolution (CR), is Senator John Fetterman, D-PA.

He told Fox News Digital that the government closure would trigger chaos that the country did not need, especially if President Donald Trump and the CMB had no railing to brake or mass fire.

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President Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, not illustrated, in the White House Oval Office in Washington on Monday, April 7, 2025 (Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He said that if Democrats are concerned about the changes caused by the Trump administration, closing the government is not the right answer.

“We have to keep our government open,” said Fetterman. “If we close our government, you know, the types of chaos and the types of losses for the millions of Americans who count directly on this, it is simply not the right time for this, especially after the assassination (Charlie) Kirk.”

Schumer and the Democrats of the Congress offered a counter-proposition to the CR of the GOP which included a list of laundry requests, such as the extension of Obamacare subsidies permanently, repealing the health title of “Big, beautiful bill” of Trump, and grouping billions of funding canceled for the NPR and the PBS.

Republican and democrats’ proposals failed in the Senate last week.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Like the majority of his Democratic colleagues, was rooted in opposition to the extension of the short-term GOP because of his lack of language to fight against Obamacare subsidies which expire at the end of this year.

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When he was asked if he feared that the government’s closure would only give Trump to do what he congratulates, Blumenthal told Fox News Digital: “I think the Republicans would insist that he respects the law.”

Thune pointed out that conversations on Obamacare’s subsidies, in particular, could occur after the avoidance of a closure, but so far, this has not been sufficient for the Democrats of the Senate.

“I mean, they adopted 13 short -term resolutions during the Biden administration, and 96% of Democrats voted for this,” Senator John Hoeven, RN.D., in Fox News Digital told. “And go see their rhetoric. So now, all of a sudden, they can’t vote for that. It’s ridiculous.”

When we insisted on the question of whether the Republicans were going to go to Obamacare Subsidies, Hoeven said: “I think we are going to do something that we have not decided. So we are talking about a certain number of different things, but we are working on it.”