Senate minority leader and member of the Republican party Mitch McConnell said that “clumsy partisan jams” in the United States Congress would not work. The statement was a reaction to Thursday’s vote in the chamber to push back a possible government shutdown.

McConnell went ahead to slam the attempt of Democratic lawmakers to increase the debt limit of the United States, tagging it as a “poison pill” in his speech at the Senate on Thursday.

The senior Republican lawmaker wrote on Twitter, “This week in the Senate proved that clumsy partisan jams will not work. We were able to avoid a shutdown because the Democratic majority accepted reality and listened to what Republicans have consistently said for months. Now they will need to do the same thing on the debt limit.”

He also seemed to establish a victory of the Republican party in the US Senate on Thursday and said at the legislative meeting, “The democratic party has realised the way forward on basic governing duty matches the roadmap of Republicans that is being laid out for months.”

He added, “Earlier this week, the democratic leaders tried to muscle through something different, the partisan jam, but it failed. Now the government will be funded as we laid out.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki, when asked for a reaction to the recent vote in the United States Senate said, “The President, the Speaker of the House, and the Leader have more experience getting legislation across the finish line than any group of Democratic leaders in history…It’s messy, this sausage-making on Capitol Hill. Policymaking is messy”, according to ABC News.

After weeks of intense negotiations within the Senate and the House of Representatives, lawmakers approved a last minute legislation that would stave off a possible shutdown of the country’s government. Thursday’s vote ended with a tally of 65-35 and now heads to the House of Representatives, where it is likely to clear its final legislative hurdle.