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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday said Republicans will bear the responsibility for a government shutdown because they have refused to negotiate with Democrats. “The only way to avoid a shutdown is to negotiate with Democrats,” he told reporters shortly after the Senate rejected a pair of competing stopgap measures. The Republican proposal, a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution (CR) with added money for lawmakers’ security, was defeated 44–48 after passing the House earl

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) insisted Wednesday that Republicans’ short-term government funding proposal was “partisan” because it was a continuation of the funding levels that House Democrats largely rejected in March. “It represented, at the time, an attack on veterans, an attack on housing, an attack on nutritional assistance and an attack on the health care of the American people,” he said. “The legislation that they’ve put before the House and now the Senate in a take-it-or-