Welp with a 50-44 vote the Democrats only had three cross the aisle. In government funding attempts both Sen. Fetterman and Sen. Cortez Masto have broken ranks. Sen. Shaheen is one of the retiring Democratic Senators who will need to break for the CR to be able to be passed.
Back to this military funding bill Democrats are trying to spin this into something it is not by saying oh "we defeated another House bill full of poison pills" and that is not how any of this works. However, while it was in theory the House bill that was voted the procedural vote allows for the Senate to do what the Senate does for honest to god 99.99999% of bills..... rip out the House text and replace it with their (Senate) text.
So when you see Democratic Senators like Richard Blumenthal say "I will vote yes on a military appropriation bill to pay our men and women in uniform, but if it has all of the House poison pills, no" he is banking on you not knowing that this is literally how the government works. This would have allowed for the House and Senate to both have each others respective bills officially and begin to hash out a compromise.
Reminder this bipartisan legislation that was supposed to replace the House text once the procedural vote was cleared passed out of Committee 26-3 aka more than enough Democratic votes to get passed 60.
Even worse are some of the comments that came out from these Senators that truly are going to be nightmare senarios for them in the future...
“I won’t vote just for the defense appropriations bill, even though that’s my bill,” said Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations panel that controls the defense budget.
Sen. Coons at the same time has been a Senator calling for the Senate to return to regular order.... He just did the exact opposite.
Coons and other opponents also argued lawmakers should prioritize talks to end the shutdown — which Democrats demand must include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies — rather than passing bills to fund portions of the government.
These people live in a fairy land thinking that something like this is possible. This vote and a lot of quotes from these Senators are going to help reverse the tide and really work towards shifting the polls to blame the Democrats. We have seen this historically time and time before yet for some reason this time around only a small group of Senate Dems seem to be taking their job seriously to fund the government and move forward.