With a Friday night deadline to fund the government or allow it to start winding down, the Senate is set for a crunch vote ahead of the midnight cut-off on a Trump-backed bill passed by the House of Representatives.
“If there’s a shutdown, even the Democrats admit it will be their fault,“ Trump told reporters on Thursday.
Others in the minority party -- worried that they would be blamed over a stoppage with no obvious exit ramp -- also appear ready to incur the wrath of their support base by backing down.
'Do the right thing'
“When the government shuts down, you have government employees who are no longer paid, you have services that begin to lag. It brings great harm on the economy and the people,“ he told Fox News.
DOGE aims to cut federal spending by $1 trillion this year and claims to have made savings so far of more than $100 billion through lease terminations, contract cancellations and firing federal workers.
Grassroots Democrats, infuriated by what they see as the SpaceX and Tesla CEO's lawless rampage through the federal bureaucracy, want their leaders to stand up to DOGE and Trump.
'Carte blanche'
Several top Democrats have warned, however, that a shutdown could play into Musk's hands, distracting from DOGE's most unpopular actions, which just this week has included firing half the Education Department's workforce.
The Democratic leader claimed that Musk and Trump were hoping for the government to grind to a halt.
Republicans control 53 seats in the 100-member Senate.
Schumer and Pennsylvania Senator Fetterman are so far the only Democrats committed to allowing the bill to move forward, as no other Democrats have indicated publicly they would be willing to cross the aisle.
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