'You’re weak': Ex-RNC chair blasts Chuck Schumer for voting to 'wave the white flag'
Raw StoryThe U.S. Senate voted by a 62-38 margin to advance House Republicans' government funding bill on Friday, staving off a government shutdown but almost certainly giving President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson a major legislative victory assuming the final vote gets majority support. The Democratic support for the legislation came about after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer endorsed the GOP spending plan Thursday night as a means of avoiding a prolonged shutdown of federal agencies. But Michael Steele — the former chairman of the Republican National Committee — argued in a recent MSNBC interview that it was "absolutely galling" to see the Senate Democratic leader "wave the white flag" and back Republicans' bill. "So Chuck Schumer comes out and tells us, 'oh my God, it would be much worse if, you know, a government shutdown.'
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