Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican short-term funding bill that will effectively help avoid a government shutdown at the end of the day.

N.Y., announced Thursday he would vote to advance Republicans’ six-month funding bill that passed the House to avert a government shutdown Friday night. The move represents a major concession from Schumer,

A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country,” Schumer said on the Senate floor when he announced his decision. But nobody really knows