((News) – US representative. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezDN.Y., criticized the chairman of the Senate reduction on Thursday Chuck Schumer for the statement of his intention to vote for a household regulations sponsored by Republicans in order to avoid the government’s closure.
“I can’t underline enough how wrong this is if you vote for the CR (continuous solution),” said Ocasio-Cortez to Newsnation.
Schumer’s move has angered A broad spectrum of the democratic partyAnd Schumer himself even called the legislation “terrible”. It is the same law that the Haus Democrats contradicted almost unanimously on Tuesday, also because the Republicans would not negotiate the Republicans with them.
“People think this is a left problem or a real problem. It’s not. It really is not,” she said to Newsnation. “This is about our values and what we stand for, and it’s about the right and the wrong thing, and we have time to correct the course.”
The continued resolution would largely add the current level of financing until September, but 6 billion US dollars for defense spending and reduce $ 13 billion from non -defense programs. The Democrats are against these cuts that would affect that would affect health care, veterans, housing, nutritional programs and more.
While the Senate is to vote on the GOP legislation on Friday before the midnight financing period, it is not yet clear whether eight Senate Democrats join their Republican colleagues and will vote for being adopted. But Schumer’s announcement makes it more likely, throws every kind of uniform front and highlights a leadership vacuum in the party.
The democratic leadership of the house made its anger at Schumer’s announcement. Leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., Peits Katherine Clark, D-Mass., And Caucus chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
Newsnation Affiliate The Hill has contributed to this report.
