March 14, 2025: Schumer giveth and Schumer taketh away

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

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House Republicans are one step closer to passing their continuing resolution to fund the government, now that they have overcome the roadblock that is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Last night, Schumer announced that he will reluctantly support the GOP’s CR — preferring it to the alternative of a government shutdown. But that decision has left many Democrats apoplectic. They were spoiling for a fight with Trump and saw this as their moment of maximum leverage; if not now, then when? How will it all shake out, and what will insiders be watching for ahead of the big vote this afternoon? Congress reporter Jordain Carney joins Playbook deputy editor Zack Stanton to discuss.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:05.6	Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It's Friday, March 14th.
0:11.1	And what striving the day in Washington could have been very different had it not been for one Chuck Schumer.
0:16.5	Last night on the Senate floor, the minority leader announced that given the Hobson's choice between a government shutdown and supporting the House GOP's continuing resolution, he will opt to keep the government open, passing the GOP funding bill that many Democrats utterly loathe.
0:30.9	Here to chat with me about that, and the maneuvering we can expect ahead of tonight's government funding deadline is Politico Congress supporter Jordan Carney.
0:38.2	Good morning, Jordan.
0:39.2	Morning. Thanks for having me on.
0:40.7	Thanks for being here. So around 7 p.m. last night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the floor that he planned to vote for the House Republican CR that would keep the government open.
0:51.6	That signals, you know, quite a shift from where Democrats in the Senate
0:55.5	were until very recently as they plan to block the CR. What changed?
1:00.3	Schumer first told his caucus. They did a lunch on Thursday where times we could hear some
1:09.1	senators yelling in the lunch, just as like a hint of how,
1:12.9	I think, sort of painful at times this discussion has been for Senate Democrats.
1:17.7	But he told his caucus in the launch that he was going to vote to proceed.
1:22.2	So like basically like helped the House GOP bill get over, you know, like break a filibuster,
1:26.9	get the 60 votes that needs to break filibuster. And then he came to the floor and, you know, gave his speech
1:32.4	and he kind of walked reporters through his thinking. And he said, you know, first we were sort of
1:37.8	hoping that the house is not going to be able to pass its bill. Because, you know, this has not
1:42.5	really been something like Johnson has been able to do in the past with House GOP votes only.
1:48.2	And then when it became apparent that they, you know, were able to and they did,
1:52.9	he kind of had to weigh which is the worst or which is like the least bad option,
1:58.6	you know, both for Democrats and, you know, for the country,
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