{"id":77024,"date":"2026-08-05T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/schumer-claims-victory-as-senate-moves-to-avert-shutdown-gop-says-he-got-played\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:56:05","slug":"schumer-claims-victory-as-senate-moves-to-avert-shutdown-gop-says-he-got-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/schumer-claims-victory-as-senate-moves-to-avert-shutdown-gop-says-he-got-played\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer claims victory as Senate moves to avert shutdown; GOP says he got played"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate quietly moved its solution to halt a government shutdown<\/a> through another key step as the tenuous truce between Republicans and Democrats continues to hold.<\/p>\n

In the midst of a hectic, albeit open-ended and uncertainty-laden schedule, the upper chamber advanced its continuing resolution<\/a> (CR) unanimously on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While not the final vote, it\u2019s a strong sign that neither side wants to thrust the federal government into uncertainty as the midterms near.<\/p>\n

It marks a sharp departure from the shutdown politics of the last year and follows Senate Republicans’ hand-wringing for months that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,<\/a> D-N.Y., would once again lead his caucus to the brink and shut the government down for political gain.<\/p>\n

DEMOCRATS BLINK AS SCHUMER HELPS GOP CLEAR KEY SHUTDOWN HURDLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For now, that\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n

And Schumer is saying that Democrats have wanted to keep the lights on in a bipartisan manner all along.<\/p>\n

He contended that the CR, negotiated between the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, was a major victory for Democrats, particularly for its design to “stave off Trump’s disgraceful effort<\/a> to withhold federal grants from vital projects.”<\/p>\n

“I mean, what kind of country is this? You have two identical projects, one in a red state and one in a blue state funded the same way, same clean record,” Schumer said. “He cancels the blue state one and says the red state one is OK.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP ADMIN PAUSING OVER $1B IN MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO MINNESOTA, CALIFORNIA OVER FRAUD, COMPLIANCE CONCERNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Trump administration are pushing for more control over federal grants, which critics like Schumer and others warn could be used as a political cudgel to dictate which states do and don\u2019t get a flow of federal dollars.<\/p>\n

If the CR passes and is signed by Trump, it will pause that rule change until Dec. 11, when the stopgap expires.<\/p>\n

But Republicans say it\u2019s not quite the victory Schumer thinks it is.<\/p>\n

BOMB-THROWER DEM MAKES SHOCKING PROMISE TO KICK SCHUMER TO CURB DURING SENATE DEBATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., countered that Schumer may think he won with the deal, but, in reality, it just delayed the inevitable for the White House\u2019s plans for grant-funded projects.<\/p>\n

“I think he’s going to go back to his base and say, \u2018I got the OMB rule killed,\u2019” Kennedy said. “Well, he didn\u2019t. I mean, I’ve talked to [OMB Director] Russ Vought, and the president this morning about that, and the rule can be ready by Dec. 11. So, no harm, no foul.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate quietly moved its solution to halt a government shutdown through another key step as the tenuous truce between Republicans and Democrats continues to hold. In the midst of a hectic, albeit open-ended and uncertainty-laden schedule, the upper chamber advanced its continuing resolution (CR) unanimously on Wednesday.\u00a0 While not the final vote, it\u2019s a … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77024","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\/77024","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=77024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}