Debt Ceiling Off-Ramp Closed

“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.”