With the clock ticking toward a potential federal government shutdown at midnight, Virginia’s two senators say they will not support a stopgap spending plan that Republicans in the House of Representatives adopted to run the government for the next six months instead of passing a full budget.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who faces reelection next year, and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who just won a third term in November, said Thursday that they strongly oppose the continuing resolution that the House adopted on Tuesday before leaving town.
The Virginia senators’ stance puts them at odds with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who said on the floor on Thursday night that he will vote for the stopgap.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
