Get ready for a do-or-die Senate weekend.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune will try to break the shutdown impasse Friday. Democrats we’ve spoken to say he won’t succeed, as they dig in to force more GOP concessions in the coming days.
Thune will tee up another vote on the House-passed continuing resolution Friday as part of a plan that could pave the way for ending the shutdown. The majority of Democrats said Thursday night that they’d block the effort — even as party moderates are talking with Republicans about an offer that would advance a minibus appropriations package and revised stopgap into at least December, with a promise of a future…
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