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Democrats clear the way for the GOP funding bill, ending the threat of a government shutdown.

Plus, with America's commitment to NATO suddenly in doubt,

European leaders grapple with the unthinkable, facing Russia alone.

Europe relies on the US for the backbone of fighting, communications, intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, things

that it's still possible to fight without them, but it's kind of like fighting blind.

And the price of gold reaches a record high. It's Friday, March 14th. I'm Kate Bouloghant

for the Wall Street Journal filling in for Luke Vargas.

And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

Senate Democrats are planning to help advance a Republican measure to fund the government in a vote this afternoon, ending the threat of a shutdown.

Democrats had struggled for days on how to approach the GOP bill, which gives the Trump administration more flexibility to downsize and dismantle federal agencies. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

said there was no good option, adding he would back the GOP measure because the prospect of a shutdown

was worse. Chauvonne Hughes covers Congress for the journal. Schumer's decision is a politically

risky one. He is set to lose more than half of the Democratic caucus as he votes in favor of the Republican bill to keep the government open.

A shutdown Schumer argued would give President Trump even greater power to lay off federal workers beyond those in agencies he has already targeted.

Senate Republican leaders have scheduled a procedural vote for this afternoon.

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