"In a closed-door meeting earlier this month, House Democrats fumed about a potential repeat of the government funding fight back in March. Some House Democrats saw that scenario coming to fruition with this proposal, with one telling Axios saying that if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) "really tries to go down this route there will be open mutiny among House Dems.""
"Asked during a press conference Monday whether he would support a 7-10 day bill, Schumer jumped on the question as a way to rule out any short-term funding mechanism. "No. No. We have to do it now. The time is a'wasting," Schumer thundered. "We've delayed and delayed and delayed." He didn't specify whether that applies to a stopgap measure before or after a shutdown."
""Trading away leverage in exchange for a pinky promise isn't a real strategy," said Indivisible's national advocacy director, Andrew O'Neill. "Democrats should know better than to negotiate against themselves like this, and scrap this idea immediately.""
House Democrats reacted angrily to the prospect of repeating the March government funding fight if a short-term funding measure is used. Senate leadership explored a 7-10 day funding bill as a potential off-ramp to buy negotiating time on health care without relieving the White House before the election. Senate leadership publicly rejected a short-term stopgap, insisting action must happen now. Progressive organizations and the Congressional Progressive Caucus denounced the proposal as surrendering leverage and urged abandonment. Several House Democrats, including members of both the Progressive Caucus and the New Democrat Coalition, expressed alignment with that opposition.
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