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In today’s edition, we immerse ourselves in the next steps in Capitol Hill after the Chamber approved a short -term financing bill with a government financing deadline that is quickly approaching. In addition, Steve Kornacki looks for voters trends that shape the next elections of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, the first state of significant battlefield of 2025.
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The pressure is in the Senate Democrats after the Chamber approves a financing bill to avoid a closure
President Mike Johnson approved another important test today in the narrow, muscular dividation chamber through a Stopgap financing bill to avoid a government closure.
He puts the Senate Democrats in a politically precarious position, with money from the government sent to dry on Friday night.
The six-month financing bill approved 217-213, Scott Wong, Kyle Stewart, Sahil Kapur and Rebecca Kaplan Report of Capitol Hill. Only a Republican of the Chamber, the conservative representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against. And only a Democrat, representative Jared Golden, who represents a president of the district, Donald Trump, taken in Maine, voted for it.
The result is a victory for Republican leaders and the White HouseThey do not want to see a closure in the first two months of the new administration and are eager to advance to advance in Trump’s agenda on the border, taxes and other policy areas.
In recent days, Trump and his main assistants called undecided republicans to urge them to support the financing bill, multiple sources familiar with calls to NBC News said. And before the vote on Tuesday morning, Vice President JD Vance snuggled with the Republicans of the House of Representatives in the Capitol to meet with the support.
The representative Kat Cammack, R-Fla., One of the Republicans who were in the fence, voted for the bill after he said he visited the White House earlier in the day.
But the drama is far from finishing. Republicans control 53 seats in the Senate, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Ky, has made it clear that he is firmly against the financing bill. That means at least eight Democratic senators would have to support him to cross the 60 votes of the Senate and send it to Trump’s desk.
The democratic leaders of the House of Representatives were firmly against the bill. They explained to the Republicans for writing the bill as partisan and argued that they gave the Trump administration too much discretion on how to spend certain money pots.
The democratic leaders of the Senate, however, have remained mom. After an unusually long Democratic lunch meeting on Tuesday, the minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., refused to declare his position on the bill, a sign that its members lack consensus on the way to follow.
Publicly, many Senate Democrats said they wanted to see how the camera voted first before intervening. But Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., Said he would vote for the bill.
“I refuse to burn the people and to claim to save it,” said Fetterman. “I will probably not agree with many facets of that CR, but when the election is about closing the government, I don’t want to get involved with that.”
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Massie Fallout: Trump’s patience seems to be energetic with Massie, who also voted against the budget resolution of the Republican Party of the House of the Reprue last month. Trump said in Truth Social that “he would lead the position” to find a main opponent to challenge him next year.
But as Melanie Zanona reports, that did not sit well with the representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas. During a Caucus of the Republican Party of the closed house on Tuesday morning, Roy said he did not appreciate Trump’s threat, according to two sources in the room. Roy also asked the Republican leadership to defend Massie, which Johnson later made at a press conference. Read more →
What to know about Trump’s presidency today
- The Education Department is preparing to say goodbye to half of its workforce.
- The United States will immediately raise a break about the exchange of intelligence and resume providing security assistance to Ukraine after kyiv delegates agreed to accept the Trump administration proposal for a high intermediate fire of 30 days with Russia.
- Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said he had agreed to suspend a 25% surcharge in electricity imports to the United States after talking with the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick following Trump’s threats to walk steel and aluminum rates in the nation in 50%.
- Tesla delivered five of her vehicles to the White House and parked them in an entrance road so that Trump personally inspected, hours after she said in Truth Social that she planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate her support for Elon Musk and for the fall of the car company.
- The United States Agency for International Development is instructing its staff in Washington to crush and burns documents, according to an email obtained by NBC News.
- Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, said she had stripped the security authorizations of dozens of former officials and lawyers of Biden involved in Trump related cases.
Voting trends shape the first great state of battlefield of 2025
By Steve Kornacki
In three weeks, we will obtain our first reading of the battle state of the political landscape after 2024.
Wisconsin’s election on April 1 for a seat in the Supreme Court of the State is non -partisan only. The prominent republican donors and activists are directly behind Brad Schimel, while the Democrats are with the liberal Susan Crawford.
Participation will be much lower than in November, and the electorate is skewed towards voters who are more politically committed and partisan, which makes this an imperfect test. But the result will at least offer clues about how political winds could be changing in what could be said that it is the main swing state in the United States.
There are some patterns and key trends that allowed President Donald Trump to turn the state in November that will be under the microscope next month.
Where the Republicans obtained profits
Eight of the 10 counties in which Trump improved his performance of the 2020 elections are in the southwest part of the state, in what is called the “area without derivation” (a wink to the unique topography that resulted from the lack of glacial coverage more than 10,000 years ago).
Politically, it represents a significant growth opportunity for the Republican party, since it remained faithful to the Democrats even more recently than other small cities and rural parts of the State. It was Trump’s emergence in 2016 that triggered the movement of the area towards the Republican party.
Does this represent a partisan realignment that is in progress and that will allow Republicans to build an even greater advantage here in the future? Or is Trump more tentative and specific, offering Democrats the opportunity to stabilize and improve their performance without Trump on the electoral ballot? In particular, the area returned to its democratic roots in the recent races of the State Supreme Court.
Where the Democrats are in growth mode
Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha’s “Wow” But the advantage of the Republican Party has been retreating.
The decreases of the Republican party here coincide with the national trend of the latest generation of highly educated white suburbs, professional and white class that throw their previous republican loyalty, which drastically accelerated with the appearance of Trump.
Even while they lost the land throughout the state, the Democrats modestly improved their performance in Wow counties last November. In Ozaukee and Waukesha, Harris won a greater vote participation than any democratic presidential candidate there from Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
That democratic profits have been particularly marked in Ozaukee is not a surprise. Outside Dane County (Hogar from the University of Wisconsin-Madison), it has the highest concentration of white and educated voters in the university in the state.
Last November, the Democrats deposited even greater profits in Wow counties, which could have pushed Harris throughout the state. Even so, the Democrats see the opportunity to make more progress here and consolidate them, and the Republicans hope to arrest their fall without Trump at the top of their ticket.
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🗞️ The other main stories today
- 📉 Take balance: Trump has previously indicated the stock market as a key indicator of the economic success of its administration. Now, as the markets immerse themselves, their melody is changing. Read more →
- 📉 Take balance, cont. Speaking of that, the S&P 500 could not escape another day of losses on Tuesday in the middle of a roller mountain trade session. Read more →
- 🗳️ What is running: Lieutenant governor of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist, launched his campaign for governor, joining a growing Democratic primary in a very divided battlefield state. Read more →
- 🗳️ She is running: Former Democratic Representative Katie Porter announced that he is postulated for Governor of California, but a possible offer by former Vice President Kamala Harris appears. Read more →
- 🌏 If it’s Tuesday: Greenland is celebrating his parliamentary elections, a test for the independence of the territory when Trump is dedicated to acquire it. Read more →
That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Bridget Bowman.
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