For Senate Democrats, today is the day.
After months of softening the ground with political messages, today they’ll decide if they’re going to block a short-term funding bill and tip the federal government into a shutdown at midnight or cave to President
Monday’s meeting between Trump and top congressional leaders pointed in one direction: shutdown.
Unless there’s a sudden reversal to pass a stopgap measure, government funding will expire at midnight and a shutdown will take hold.
The brightest spotlight in Congress will fall on Senate Minority Leader