Josh Marshall's take (fwiw): Okay, Schumer's speech was a head fake. This is the Senate D caucus trying to fool their...

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15. Ed Kilgore: Let me be clear: I'm not accusing Chuck Schumer of lying. He's telling us the plan is to support cloture...

Ed Kilgore
‪@edkilgore.bsky.social‬

Well, folks, looks like the fix is in: Senate Dems will vote for cloture (i.e., to give up the right to filibuster) on the CR in exchange for a doomed vote on a short-term "clean" CR. Then Republicans will get their dirty CR on a party-line vote. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-h...

I hope Chuck Schumer realizes nobody's going to be fooled by this "we oppose the CR but not enough to filibuster it" position. It's just a complicated way of caving. Maybe it's the right thing to do in the end, but if so he shouldn't be so devious about it.

Let me be clear: I'm not accusing Chuck Schumer of lying. He's telling us the plan is to support cloture to get a vote on a 30-day "clean" CR. But doing that means giving up the right to filibuster the GOP's "dirty" CR. That's just a fact. And once that happens, it will pass on a majority vote.

My bottom line, since I have a church event to attend, is that the two parties played chicken in the Senate and enough Dems flinched, for whatever good or bad reasons, to lose the ultimate vote on a "dirty" CR that leaves DOGE and OMB empowered to keep slashing. Hope I'm wrong, but don't think so.

Let me be clear: I'm not accusing Chuck Schumer of lying. He's telling us the plan is to support cloture to get a vote on a 30-day "clean" CR. But doing that means giving up the right to filibuster the GOP's "dirty" CR. That's just a fact. And once that happens, it will pass on a majority vote.

— Ed Kilgore (@edkilgore.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T22:49:37.460Z