10 Democratic senators voted to advance the GOP-backed continuing resolution to avert a partial government shutdown.

The spending measure would fund the federal government through September 30th.

The procedural vote to advance the bill passed 62-38.

Democrats who supported the measure include:

  • Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
  • John Fetterman (D-PA)
  • Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
  • Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
  • Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
  • Dick Durbin (D-IL)
  • Angus King (D-ME)
  • Brian Schatz (D-HI)
  • Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
  • Gary Peters (D-MI)

The Hill reports:

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced an agreement shortly before 4:30 pm Friday to vote to immediately advance the House-passed funding bill and consider four amendments to the legislation.

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One amendment sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) would reinstate veterans who were fired from their federal jobs under Trump. Another sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) would eliminate the Department of Government Efficiency. A third sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would codify the cuts to foreign assistance recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency.

All of the amendments are expected to fail.

Schumer opened the door for some Democratic colleagues to vote to advance the bill by announcing Thursday that he would do so to avoid a government shutdown.

He warned a shutdown would give Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk — Trump’s chief budget cutter — tremendous leverage to keep federal employees out of work and to keep federal agencies shuttered for weeks, or even months.

Per NPR:

While Republicans control the Senate, they do not hold the 60 seats necessary to break a filibuster. The final vote was 62-38, as 10 Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul and all other Democrats opposed.

The vote highlights deep divisions within the Democratic party over how to respond to President Trump in his second term. The decision by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to support the funding bill sparked an intense backlash from House Democrats, who almost unanimously opposed it.

“I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal and this is not just progressive Democrats — this is across the board, the entire party,” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday night at a party retreat in Leesburg, Va.

“I think it is a huge slap in the face,” she said.

The Senate Democrats who opposed the bill — a stopgap measure known as a continuing resolution, or CR — argued that helping to pass it would give Trump and his advisor Elon Musk the leeway to continue slashing the federal government without oversight. But they also acknowledged that a shutdown would bring pain and disruption. New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich said Thursday that Democrats were wrestling with what the “least worst outcome” would be.

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