“One idea that we heard from Senate Democrats is Republicans can let Schumer get onto a clean government funding bill and then let Democrats pass it with 50 votes on their own,” Punchbowl News reports.
But Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) ended those hopes: “No. We got members who publicly said that they would filibuster the cloture vote.”
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