The Republican-controlled House passed a continuing resolution to keep the government open past Friday.

But now Democrats say they will try to kill that bill in the Senate.

I'm not so sure they will.

That continuing resolution barely passed the House earlier in the week.

And one of Speaker Mike Johnson's tricks is sending the House home after

passing the continuing resolution. He's done this before. He leaves our Senate with no choice,

but to pass the resolution he just passed. They can't make any changes because of the Senate

as a different version. There'll be nobody in the House of Representatives to negotiate with.

They all went home. Democrats have been successfully painted in a corner. So it's basically take it or

leave it. Pass the House resolution as is in the Senate or the government shuts down early

Saturday morning. Are we looking at a shutdown?

Who knows?

I doubt it.

This is not a budget bill.

It's a continuing resolution, which means it can be filibustered.

So the Democrats in the Senate do have options.

The Democrats do have the power to kill this continuing resolution

in the Senate, but that means a government shutdown. Now, there are budget bills and there

are continuing resolutions. Continuing resolutions are what you need to keep the government

open when you can't pass a budget bill. That's what we're

looking at right now. Is a continuing resolution? In the Senate, a budget bill is a simple

thumbs up or thumbs down because budget bills usually pass with a simple majority. They're

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