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Originally Posted by econophile
I was just watching something where Schumer said the clean CR that the Senate will vote on today is an amendment to the Trump version, rather than a separate bill. Doesn't really make sense to me. Wouldn't the dems have to vote for the Trump version before getting the amendment?
Then the compromise is that the Dems let the Trump bill pass cloture, and then the clean CR is an amendment that doesn't need to pass cloture. Sounds like Mitch gets to pass an unamended Trump plan and the Dems get nothing.