{"id":36036,"date":"2025-03-14T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/first-thing-chuck-schumer-to-back-republican-funding-bill-to-avoid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:21:54","slug":"first-thing-chuck-schumer-to-back-republican-funding-bill-to-avoid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/first-thing-chuck-schumer-to-back-republican-funding-bill-to-avoid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Chuck Schumer to back Republican funding bill to avoid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minority leader says a shutdown would hand Trump and Musk a \u2018carte blanche\u2019. Plus, JD Vance booed at Washington concert<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/13\/schumer-republican-bill-shutdown-trump\">has announced he will vote for a Republican funding bill to avert<\/a> a government shutdown, saying he believed a stoppage would carry \u201cconsequences for America that are much, much worse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does Schumer think the consequences would be?<\/strong> He said a shutdown would hand Donald Trump and Elon Musk a \u201ccarte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now\u201d. It could lead to the furloughing of staff without guarantee they would be rehired, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did Trump take over the Kennedy Center?<\/strong> In Trump\u2019s words: \u201cWe didn\u2019t like what they were showing and various other things. We\u2019re going to make sure that it\u2019s good and it\u2019s not going to be woke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/14\/first-thing-chuck-schumer-republican-funding-bill-avoid-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority leader says a shutdown would hand Trump and Musk a \u2018carte blanche\u2019. Plus, JD Vance booed at Washington concert Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has announced he will vote for a Republican funding bill to avert a government shutdown, saying &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Chuck Schumer to back Republican funding bill to avoid shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/first-thing-chuck-schumer-to-back-republican-funding-bill-to-avoid-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Chuck Schumer to back Republican funding bill to avoid shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}