What a difference a Trump makes. Hours after Chuck Schumer signaled to his caucus that a government shutdown was coming, as Deanna wrote, Schumer is now signaling that he surrenders. Speaker Johnson, led by Donald Trump, helped Republicans screw their courage to the sticking place to bring about the Schumer Shutdown. Suddenly the bullying Democrats back down and we have Schumer Surrenders. It’s so beautiful, man.

Poor Chuckles. He really wanted a one month Continuing Resolution, in the vain hope that the Democrats could finally get a win over President Trump. A one month spending bill so that they could start doing this all over again on Monday. The lies and the terrifying tales. All that Speaker Johnson and the Titanium Spined Republicans have been doing is asking them to vote for the CR they have voted for twice before:

the current continuing resolution (CR) bill under consideration in the Senate is essentially the same one that has been voted on twice before. Initially, in December 2024, a bipartisan CR was proposed to fund the government through March 14, 2025, but it faced opposition and was…

— Mason Jiller (@mason_jiller247) March 14, 2025

Chris Van Hollen isn’t that bright.

The Daily Beast put it that Schumer caved. Heh!

After a weeks-long match of tug-of-war it seems that Senate Democrats are ready to roll over and pass a Republican-led funding bill full of President Donald Trump’s most coveted policies.

The “Republican-led funding” is Biden’s Continuing Resolution from last year and it isn’t full of Trump’s most coveted policies. I wish.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is right, but wrong. Yes, it’s Biden level spending and bad, but we can’t have a small fix. Senator John Kennedy is a National Treasure and Senator Lisa Rochester was near tears.

We have gotten Fetterman and Schumer, but since we are down Paul, we would still need six more Democrats.

Congressman Wesley Hunt posted this video which explained why Chuck U. surrendered. Trump would be free to wholesale fire a bunch of Federal worker bees.

A HUMILIATED Chuck Schumer BACKS DOWN After Watching Clips of Himself Flip-Flopping on Government Shutdowns for 24 Hours Straight.

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— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) March 13, 2025

More from the Daily Beast:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer very publicly wrestled with the implications of his obstruction or acquiescence before caving on Thursday evening. Standing in the way of the bill’s passage would mean a government shutdown that would have cleared the way for Trump to fire untold numbers of federal workers and downsize the government even further—while rolling over and allowing its passage would avert the shutdown but hand unprecedented power over federal spending to Trump and his right-hand man, Elon Musk.

As Republicans have learned over and over again at the knees of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell, that’s the way the game is played when you don’t have power.

Because the Democrats are in bed with NBC News, NBC has more dirt on what’s going on:

“We have a choice between terrible and awful,” said Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.

It’s unclear what if anything Schumer received in return for his decision to enable the House bill to pass. Before his comments, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., hinted at a possible endgame: Democrats get a vote on an amendment to the House bill to turn it into a 30-day stopgap measure, though he wouldn’t commit to dropping a filibuster if Republicans voted down that amendment.

Democrats just can stop lying. This is a Continuing Resolution. This is Biden’s spending levels. That’s why Rand Paul won’t vote for it. More from NBC:

Earlier in the day, a growing number of moderate and swing-state Democrats vowed to oppose the legislation. That included Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., who called the bill “dangerous”; Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who said it’d “give unchecked power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk”; Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who blasted it as “a grab bag of extreme policies”; Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who called it “a terrible deal” that’d hurt Virginia.

“One thing is certain: If we pass this continuing resolution for the next half year, we will own what the president does,” said Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. “I am not willing to take ownership of that.”

After the ugly lies that Shifty Schiff has told over the last near decade, he better darn well be careful. He could have a case of Spontaneous Human Combustion. Ick. But wait, there is more:

From outside the Democratic lunch meeting, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., could be heard yelling about about devastating impacts of a government shutdown, particularly at this juncture.

Does that mean Kirsten will be a “yes” on the Continuing Resolution?

As Donald Trump told Volodymyr Zelenskyy, before he kicked him to the curb, “You don’t hold any cards.”

Yet even as Democrats were rallying against the House GOP bill, they struggled to offer a plausible endgame to avert a shutdown — or reopen the government if funding lapses after Friday night. They demanded a 30-day stopgap measure to continue funding at status quo levels in order to reach a full funding deal for fiscal year 2025.

That discombobulated approach clashes with the fact that Trump and Johnson have said they don’t want an appropriations deal for a fiscal year that is already half over, as they want to move on to their party-line budget bill to address taxes, immigration and other priorities.

You got no juice, no plans, no cards and “Schumer Surrenders”. Wave that white flag and vote for the Continuing Resolution.

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