CR --> No, NOT CCR But CR -- March 14, 2025

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There is no question national news media are going to have a blockbuster four years, financially.

Breaking: CR passes: 54 - 46. Along party lines with three exceptions. Politico today is very, very interesting, and worth a read!

Breaking:  Dem Senators Durbin, Schatz, Hassan, and Peters vote to advance GOP spending bill (continuing resolution -- CR).

If the CR passes -- deadline is tomorrow night, midnight, my thoughts:

• this was way too easy;
• has anyone even read the CR?
• has any newspaper (NYT, Washington Post, others) even published the major pieces of the CR?
• will anyone even care?
• will MAGA be disappointed that the government wasn't shut down?
• strange bedfellows with regard to the CR: MAGA, AOC
• Hakeem Jeffries: the US House did its part; why didn't Schumer?
  

Process update: US Senate voted 62-38 on a procedural vote to "keep the lights on." Link here. Friday afternoon, March 15, 2025. Ten democrats voted to move the process along. The math suggests one GOP senator voted against moving the process along. The only Republican to vote against the CR: Rand from Kentucky. The ten democrats:

• Schumer
• Durbin
• Masto (NV)
• Fetterman (PA)
• Gillibrand (NY)
• Hassan (NH)
• King (I-ME)
• Peters (MI)
• Schatz (HI)
• Shaheen (NH)

Four amendments:

• three amendments need 60 votes:
• one amendment needs a simple majority;
• the amendments:
• Van Hollen, D-MD: eliminate DOGE
• Duckworth, D-IL: reinstate veterans who were fired from federal jobs [defeated 47 - 53]
  
• Paul, R-KY: codify DOGE's cuts to foreign aid (needs simple majority)
• Merkley, D-OR: limit some of the bill's rescissions [defeated 47 - 53)

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