On February 11th, Senate Democratic leader Schumer attempted to shift the responsibility for the possible government shutdown in March to Senate Republican leader John Thune and congressional Republicans. Schumer stated that Thun “seems to have abandoned” the normal order of the funding process. Republicans have a responsibility to take it seriously and avoid the Trump administration’s “shutdown” through bipartisan cooperation. According to a short-term spending bill passed by the US Congress at the end of last year, federal government funds will be depleted by mid March. If the two parties fail to push the new spending bill through Congress in a timely manner, some federal government agencies will be shut down.
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