I’ve been working hard getting our NCAA Tournament forecasts ready for Selection Sunday. So I’d barely been paying attention to the drama in the Senate, where Republicans were trying to gather votes for a budget resolution to avert a government shutdown by midnight tonight.

First, the cohosts reviewed footage of Schumer justifying his decision by saying, “The CR is bad. It’s a whole lot worse to shut down the government. Elon Musk, DOGE, and Donald Trump will use the power to shut down the government to fire hundreds of thousands,

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight Friday deadline loomed. Ten Democrats joined with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure.

At the end of last week, Congress passed a spending bill, preventing a government shutdown. But local lawmakers had differing opinions on the measure. The stopgap bill, which funds the government through September,

The liberal organizing group Indivisible said Saturday it was calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to step down from his leadership role, the latest fallout after he backed a GOP bill to keep the government open.

N.Y., on Thursday sharply criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for voicing his intent to vote for a Republican-sponsored budget bill to avoid a government shutdown. “I cannot underscore enough how incorrect that is if they vote for the CR (continuing resolution),