While it’s unclear whether it will succeed in the Senate, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer announced on the Senate floor on Thursday that he’ll be voting for it.

To pass the measure known as the continuing resolution, or CR, help is needed from Democrats, because Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage and 60 votes are needed for passage.

So at least seven Democrats would need to vote for the CR for passage with a 50-50 tie broken by Vice President JD Vance.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Friday morning that he expects the chamber will avert a shutdown.

“The sooner we get this wrapped up the better, honestly, but you know, obviously it’s somewhat dictated by the tempo the Democrats are dictating,” Thune said.

On Friday, President Donald Trump praised Schumer, writing on Truth Social: “Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for doing the right thing – Took ‘guts’ and courage! The big Tax Cuts, L.A. fire fix, Debt Ceiling Bill, and so much more, is coming. We should all work together on that very dangerous situation. A non pass would be a Country destroyer, approval will lead us to new heights. Again, really good and smart move by Senator Schumer. This could lead to something big for the USA, a whole new direction and beginning!”

The CR bill, which if passed would fund the federal government through Sept. 30, passed the House on Tuesday almost exactly on party lines at 217-213, with one Democrat voting for and one GOP member against.

House Democrats largely remain against the CR, as a statement released Thursday by their leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., stated that Democrats in Congress “remain strongly opposed to the partisan spending bill under consideration in the Senate.”

More than 50 House Democrats signed a letter critical of Schumer, including fellow New Yorker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who called the decision “a tremendous mistake.” ABC News reported some Democrats are during her to primary him in the next election in 2028.

Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke on the Senate floor Thursday, saying that Democrats had tried to offer “a way out” of the possible bill failure, a stopgap measure to fund the government for another month, but Republicans rejected that proposal “outright.” He accused Trump of wanting “full control of government spending,” and forcing GOP senators “to cower into submission” instead of working out a CR that would be more agreeable to both parties.

While the “CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” he said.

It said it would grant Trump more power, which he considers a “far worse option,” that would give Trump and Elon Musk, the unofficial head of Department of Government Efficiency, “carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now.”

He said a shutdown would give Trump and Musk “full authority to deem whole agencies, programs and personnel non-essential, furloughing staff with no promise they would ever be rehired,” leaving the decision of what would be considered essential “solely” to the Executive branch, “with nobody left at the agencies left to check them.”

Despite this stance given by Schumer, other Democrats appear to be prepared to vote against the bill.

Their private caucus meetings have become hostile.

This week, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, CNN reported he got angry during one of Senate Democrats’ private meetings.

Two sources said that Bennet accused Senate Democratic leadership of having “no strategy, no plan and no message” on the spending bill.

And, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said there would “serious harm” if federal funding were to lapse. “This will not be a normal shutdown,” she said in a Politico report.

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., posted to X Thursday that he cannot vote for the Republican plan,” which he says would “give unchecked power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., also posted Thursday, saying “I oppose its passage.”

Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Cory Booker or New Jersey, John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Tina Smith of Minnesota are among the Democrats wposted that they are against the CR Thursday. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, said he is a no.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., posted to X Friday she is “a firm 100% no.”

Smith said in a statement: “This bill we are voting on is not a ‘clean Continuing Resolution,’ and it does not continue the spending and policy law that Congress passed last year,” she said in noting funding would be slashed for health needs.

“President Trump and House Republicans wrote this bill on their own, with no consideration for my views or any of my Democratic colleagues, and they will own the consequences. From the beginning, President Trump and the Republicans set this up as an unprecedented power grab.”

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., on the other hand, announced Wednesday on X that “I will never vote to shut the government down.”

He told CNN: “There are going to be people that are going to vote no on this, but they will be free riders because they know, secretly, they know that shutting the government down is (going) to be a disaster.”

On Friday, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada she will vote to avert a government shutdown. She said it would be “devastating for the American people.”

She added in the statement: “I refuse to hand them a shutdown where they would have free reign to cause more chaos and harm.”