Schumer Shutdown Day One: Two Proposals to Reopen the Government Fail in the Senate

**Schumer Shutdown Day One**

The Senate Democrats’ proposal to reopen the government once again failed on Wednesday.

The Democrats are holding Americans hostage because they want to give healthcare benefits to illegal aliens.

BREAKING: Senate Democrats’ proposal to fund government fails in party-line vote on Day 1 of shutdown pic.twitter.com/k4QfLovEm6

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The vote failed in a party-line vote 53-47.

The US Senate rejected Democrats’ bill to fund and reopen the government in a 47–53 vote.

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Later Wednesday Senate Democrats rejected the Republican-backed proposal to fund the government in a 55-45 vote.

BREAKING: Senate Democrats block Republicans’ effort to reopen the government. pic.twitter.com/yYCTLIXexc

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Vice President JD Vance went off on the Democrats ahead of Wednesday’s vote.

“In their initial proposal, the first thing that they put out to reopen the government, they actually turned that money for health care benefits for illegal aliens back on,” Vance said. “So it’s not something that we made up.”

“It is in the text of the bill that they initially gave to us to reopen the government. It’s preposterous for them to run away from it now,” Vance said.

WATCH:

NEW: Vice President JD Vance rips Democrats for the government shutdown, calls them out for wanting to give health care benefits to illegals.

“In their initial proposal, the first thing that they put out to reopen the government, they actually turned that money for health care… pic.twitter.com/e5sPNamHmx

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