Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted a White House budget office for advancing proposal to rescind $4.9 billion in funding allocated to the State Department and the dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), calling it “unlawful” and a rejection of bipartisanship.

The Democratic leader warned it also takes Washington a step closer to a government shutdown as it signals that Trump and congressional Republicans are “going it alone” into the Sept. 30 funding deadline.

“Today’s announcement of the administration’s plan to advance an unlawful ‘pocket rescission’ package is further proof President Trump and congressional Republicans are hellbent on rejecting bipartisanship and ‘going it alone’ this fall,” Schumer said in a statement.

“As the country stare

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