Schumer to ‘step in’ with stop­gap spend­ing bill after Johnson’s failed fund­ing strat­e­gy

Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader Chuck Schumer (D‑NY) on Thurs­day will tee up a stop­gap spend­ing bill for a vote next week in a last-minute bid to avert an Oct. 1 gov­ern­ment shut­down.
The leg­isla­tive move comes the day after the Repub­li­can-led House reject­ed Speak­er Mike Johnson’s (R‑LA) pro­pos­al to extend cur­rent fund­ing lev­els into the next pres­i­den­tial admin­is­tra­tion that includ­ed a Repub­li­can proof-of-cit­i­zen­ship vot­er reg­is­tra­tion bill dubbed the SAVE Act.
The Sen­ate tak­ing the reins will “enable us to pre­vent a Trump shut­down in the event that Speak­er John­son does not work with us in a bipar­ti­san, bicam­er­al man­ner,” Schumer said.
“Now that their efforts have failed, House Repub­li­cans don’t seem to have any plan for actu­al­ly keep­ing the gov­ern­ment open,” Schumer sa …