{"id":4811,"date":"2025-03-16T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2025-03-16T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:54:51","slug":"democrats-need-to-stop-infighting-as-quickly-as-we-can-sen-whitehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=4811","title":{"rendered":"Democrats need to stop infighting &#8216;as quickly as we can&#8217;: Sen. Whitehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Sunday that the Republican Party forced Democratic lawmakers to have to choose between supporting a continuing resolution to fund the federal government or endure more cuts to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and nine other Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the CR, but his support sparked backlash among Democrats, with some calling for a change in leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWhen you understand how dangerous a shutdown is, it&#8217;s even more, sort of, understandable why they would feel that way,&#8221; Whitehouse, who voted against the resolution, told ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; co-anchor Martha Raddatz. &#8220;And so I think what we need to do is stop the intramural fighting and bleeding as quickly as we can. We are in a fight for our democracy right now, and if we&#8217;re having a fight in our dugout, we&#8217;re not out on the field, and the other team is scoring runs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Sunday that the Republican Party forced Democratic lawmakers to have to choose between supporting a continuing resolution to fund the federal government or endure more cuts to it. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and nine other Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the CR, but his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}