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I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Friday, March 14th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

The Republican-led Senate is poised to pass a funding bill today that's backed by President Trump.

The stopgap bill will prevent a government shutdown that would hit at midnight tonight.

The House-approved resolution faces a procedural vote in the Senate today,

but as we reported this morning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has reversed course

and agreed to support the bill, so it will likely pass.

Many Democrats are upset with Schumer's decision, which he defended on MSNBC.

I knew I'd get criticized, but I felt obligated for the country, for my Democratic caucus, to the people, to explain how bad a shutdown would be.

And if we went into a shutdown and everything bad happened, I had to give people this warning.

Hamas agreed today to release the last living U.S. hostage held in Gaza.

Eden Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American, has been in captivity for 525 days.

The bodies of four dual national hostages will also be returned as part of the deal

announced by a senior Hamas official. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet his team

Saturday to plan next steps as ceasefire talks continue in Qatar. It's unclear when the transfer of

hostages will take place, but it marks progress and negotiations

amid pressure from President Trump, who has prioritized freeing all hostages.

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