House Democrats are furious at their fellow Democrats in the Senate for supporting a Republican spending bill, saying Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other aisle-hopping senators are set to empower President Trump to gut the government at the expense of their own constituents.

“There is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said. “And this is not just about progressive Democrats, This is across the board — the entire party.”

The lower-chamber Democrats were virtually united on Tuesday in rejecting the partisan GOP spending package — a forceful show of opposition they hoped would inspire Senate Democrats to take the same resistant stand. And House Democratic leaders have also taken the rare step of publicly urging Senate leaders to reject the bill, which was crafted by House Republicans without Democratic input.

Huddled at their annual strategy retreat in Northern Virginia, House Democrats of all stripes had spent parts of Thursday bombarding their Senate colleagues with calls and texts urging them to kill the Republican bill.

Schumer rejected those entreaties, announcing Thursday evening that he won’t support a filibuster — the single most powerful tool at the disposal of the minority........

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