Gary Black Tracker
2025.03.13 23:02

This should help sentiment tomorrow. If Trump would just stop with the tariff threats, we could get a rally.

Schumer Says He Won’t Block GOP Bill to Avert Shutdown

03/13/2025 17:36:58

(Bloomberg) -- Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer dropped his threat to block a Republican spending bill, opening the way to avoid a US government shutdown.

“I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down,” Schumer announced on the Senate floor Thursday, adding that a shutdown “would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk carte blanche.”

Democrats and Republicans had been engaged in a high-stakes game of chicken over Democrats’ insistence that a spending package include some restraints on Elon Musk’s DOGE’s cost-cutting crusade, with Republicans refusing and daring the opposition party to risk blame for a shutdown.

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