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Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator, thank you for joining the program.

What is going on with the CR?

Explain it to our audience and how

chuck Schumer caved well so the I guess it was earlier this week schumer said that he wasn't

going to give one single Democrat the ability to vote on the CR he was mean he was going to go

to the shutdown because he said that Republicans doesn't have the vote. Well, obviously, because we're only have 53. Take Rand Paul off of it.

We're at 52. Mitch McConnell, we don't know where he's going to vote at it. So we're probably

at 51. Where we're at the CR right now, as we speak, we invoke cloture on it at 1.15 today.

Now, that means it's a 30-hour window.

And if the Democrats fight us on the 30-hour window, they can yield back the time if they want to.

If they fight us, then we won't build a vote on it until tomorrow and shut down.

All the Democrats have agreed to do it except five, five Democrats.

The five Democrats have agreed not to yield back to us on this are all up for

reelection. They're all in states that President Trump won, and they're wanting to use this

for a fundraising opportunity so they can show their base if they're fighting for a losing cause.

Because they can't explain this, Charlie, they can't explain why they're against the CR because mind you, these are the same numbers,

the same top line numbers that they voted for in September when Biden was in office,

in December when Biden was in office.

And the only thing that's really changed now is that Trump's in office.

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