b'March 14, 2025 the U.S. Senate passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown.Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said that he would vote to allow the bill to advance. Schumer said he did not like the bill but believed that triggering a shutdown would be worse.Democrat, brown-nose, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, on a short, Schumer leash, voted for the measure. Senator Mazie Hirono opposed the bill.17'