Chuck Schumer

So eight senators who caucus with Democrats have broken rank with their party to advance a Republican plan to end the shutdown.

The bill advanced by a vote of 60 to 40, just barely meeting the 60 votes needed to keep it moving forward.

The entirety of Virginia's economy is impacted by this shutdown, just as we've been impacted by Doge attacks.

Democrats must fight because millions of millions of families will lose health care coverage.

We must fight because children who are dying of cancer.

will not get healthcare coverage.

We must fight because a senior citizen cannot afford to pay $25,000 a year just for health insurance.

We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin.

I must vote no.

This healthcare crisis is so severe, so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this CR that fails to address the healthcare crisis.

But let me be clear, however this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue.

The leader has said...

He won't negotiate before.

We're willing to negotiate once the credits are extended, plain and simple.

And we made that in our proposal yesterday.

The leader has said he won't negotiate before.

We're willing to negotiate once the credits are extended back.

plain and simple.

And we made that in our proposal yesterday.

There's still only one path out.