Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has abandoned Democrats’ budget strategy, conceding to Republican demands and averting a government shutdown in a move that President Trump quickly celebrated as a Democratic capitulation.

With Democrats in the House and Senate raging at Schumer because he insisted senators bend a knee to President Donald Trump and approve a federal government spending plan that guts critical programs — rather than shut down the government — Jeffries was asked whether he believed Schumer had “acquiesced.”