2025-03-14
23 分钟It's Friday, March 14th.
I'm Jane Coston and this is what a day.
The show that reminds you that if you're having a bad day, it's definitely better than North Carolina Republican Representative Chuck Edwards.
Town hall on Thursday, Actually, I believe that the president is very supportive of Ukraine.
Tough crowd of constituents in North Carolina.
On today's show, a federal judge tells the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired probationary employees.
And dozens of people are arrested while protesting the detention of a Columbia University student activist.
But let's start with the chance of a government shutdown tonight.
Senate Democrats are scheduled to vote on government funding today.
This story is moving very quickly.
We recorded this episode on Thursday night.
And as of Thursday night, some Senate Democrats wanted to block a continuing resolution that would keep the government open, arguing that the bill stemming from the House is a worse bet for Americans than a government shutdown would be.
Especially given that President Donald Trump and billionaire co President Elon Musk have shown little to no willingness to respect Congress's spending decisions.
And that would go for a continuing resolution, too.
Here's Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine speaking to reporters on Thursday about just how bad this bill is.
The House wrote a bad bill and then left town Tuesday.
And so Speaker Johnson is the speaker of the House.
He's not the czar of the Senate.
So when I have Republican senators saying openly in an armed services hearing, this House CR hurts the national defense.
When I have Pentagon officials saying this House CR hurts the national defense, you know, I don't really view this as just a R versus default.