Sen. Elizabeth Warren will vote against moving forward on the Senate’s first package of government funding bills. It serves as an early warning shot from a standard-bearer of the progressive base ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a government shutdown — and a sign that Democrats more broadly could be gearing up to play hardball ahead of the funding cliff.
The Massachusetts Democrat said in a statement Tuesday, shared first with POLITICO, that she would oppose all votes related to advancing the bundle of Senate Appropriations Committee-passed bills, citing the Trump administration’s moves to cut and freeze funding for the Department of…
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