By all indications, Democrats are folding on threats to force a government shutdown.

As reported by The Hill, a group of 10 Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted Friday to advance a Republican bill to fund the government through Sept. 30.

Many Dems had been urging the party to keep the GOP from getting the necessary 60 votes to pass the measure and avoid a shutdown. They have contended the 6-month stopgap bill, already passed by the House, gives President Donald Trump and his DOGE agency a blank check and free rein to continue sweeping cuts to federal agencies and programs — at the expense of working class families.

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