Senate Majority Leader John Thune responded tartly to his Democratic counterpart’s calls for “bipartisan negotiations” ahead of an approaching government shutdown deadline Tuesday, underscoring the posturing that has marked the process thus far.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “knows where my office is,” Thune told reporters. “Why do you guys keep asking me this?” He later added during a floor speech that Schumer “knows my number. I haven’t heard from him.”
It’s a direct retort to Schumer’s repeated calls for a “negotiation” ahead of the Sept. 30 funding deadline. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have sent letters to Thune and…
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