Senate Democrats make their move in the shutdown fight: From the Politics Desk

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In today’s edition, we explore the next steps in the closing battle after the Senate Democrats said they would block the Government’s Financing Law of the Republican party. In addition, Andrea Mitchell examines how the United States could convince Russia to accept a high fire with Ukraine.

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Senate Democrats make their movement in the closing fight

As we wrote yesterday, the approval of the Chamber of a Republican Financing bill of Stopgap has put in links the Senate Democrats: either a measure that disapproves and renounces some of the only leverage that will have in the important legislation this year, or reject it and allow a closure to occur.

That link was in full exhibition today while discussing their next movements with the government ready to run out of money in just over 48 hours.

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, finally monitored his position, saying that the Democrats would not provide the votes to approve the continuous resolution of six months of the Republican Party. The measure requires 60 votes to advance in the Senate, and Republicans only control 53 seats.

“Financing the government should be a bipartisan effort, but the Republicans chose a partisan path, writing its continuous resolution without any contribution, of the Democrats of Congress. Because of that, the Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke the clutch in the House of Representatives, ”said Schumer.

Instead, he requested a one -month financing bill to provide more time to both parties to negotiate an agreement.

“Our Caucus is unified in a clean April CR that will keep the government open and give the Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can approve,” he said. “I hope our Republican colleagues join us to avoid a closure on Friday.”

Schumer’s comments on the Senate floor occurred after a lunch meeting between the Democratic senators. Outside the room, journalists could listen to senators aloud to their colleagues.

Senator Tim Kaine, D-V., Said they want to have the ability to propose changes in the bill.

“There are no votes at this time to approve it,” Kaine said. “The Democrats had nothing to do with this bill. And we want an opportunity to get a vote of amendment or two. And that is what we are insisting. ”

Even so, some Democrats fear that a closure is worse than accepting the bill.

“Frankly, both results are bad,” said Senator Raphael Warnock, D-GAG. “The elections have consequences, but this is an extreme bill. If it happens, it will hurt many common people on the ground. If the government closes, that will damage many common people in the field, and that is the dilemma in which we are. ”

“I am weighing the evil of each option,” added Senator Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.

Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives urged their counterparts to the Senate to vote for the Financing Law of the Republican Party while starting a three -day political retirement.

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What to know about Trump’s presidency today

• Trump said he feels “very bad” for the thousands of officials who have lost their work in recent weeks, but that “many of them do not work at all.”
• Canada announced new commercial retaliation tasks in US products worth $ 21 billion, an response to Trump by implementing universal steel and aluminum rates. The European Union is pointing to a variety of US products worth $ 28 billion, including beef, motorcycles and whiskey along with steel and aluminum manufactured in the United States. And China said I was preparing an answer.
• Price growth cooled more than expected in February, a welcome signal for markets that have been scared by the spectrum of persistent inflation, although US business policies complicate.
• The National Security Department is increasing its efforts to convince immigrants who have no legal status to self -destitute. DHS also said that his immigrant detention centers are at his capacity.
• The Trump administration is destroying the unit of the Department of Justice that supervises the prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption.

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What comes later in the high-fire-ukraine fire conversations

By Andrea Mitchell

President Donald Trump said that “it is up to Russia” to agree on the fire of one month proposed by the United States and accepted by Ukraine.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has spoken with his Russian counterpart. White House envoy Steve Witkoff Vuele from Qatar to Moscow is expected to close the treatment. There is talk of a Trump call to Russian president Vladimir Putin in sight. During the past week, the Administration hit Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the presentation by retaining weapons and intelligence of Ukraine.

What leverage does the United States have with Putin? Trump said today that “doing financially things that would be very bad for Russia.” He has mentioned the possibility of sanctions, but with China, North Korea and will help keep Russia afloat, existing sanctions against Russia have been largely ineffective.

And in almost all Trump’s statements and actions since he returned to the White House, he is again demonstrating affinity for the Russian president. When Russia was, by Trump’s own admission, “bombing Ukraine” after the United States stopped military aid, Trump said he still thought Putin wanted peace, saying “he is doing what any other person would do.”

In spite of the United States evaluations that Russia -based computer pirates are responsible for the Typhoon of Salt, a massive piracy of the US objectives, the administration is shooting the main experts on the counterintelligence in the CIA and the FBI, and welcoming the Russian diplomatic missions previously expelled from the US. The United States also put on the side of Russia, China and Belarus in the United Nations against a resolution that supports Ukraine. And all this occurs in the middle of Trump’s continuous criticisms of NATO and the European Union, the impressive traditional Western allies of the United States and the closest intelligence partners of “five eyes.”

With Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying “the ball is in the court of Russia”, it is likely to be Russia to accept the high fire and, instead, try to defeat Zelenskyy at the negotiating table. Clearly, tortuous negotiations are coming over the territory, security guarantees, repairs, NATO membership and more in a war that has been a “meat grinder”, to use the Walz term.

Then, despite the fact that the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said: “We are in the line of Tenth Yardo and the president hopes that the Russians will help us direct this to the final area”, it would be prudent to avoid declare “mission fulfilled.”

The Trump effect goes abroad

A party that has abruptly criticized the threat of President Donald Trump to take care of Greenlanda assured a surprise electoral victory on Tuesday in the Danish territory, but may have to govern with a couple with a much warmer vision of the president of the United States, reports Astha Rajvanshi.

The Demokraatit Pro-Business Party, which favors a gradual movement towards the independence of Denmark, won 30% of the total participation of votes, not enough to govern the Arctic territory. Instead, the party must be associated with opponents to form a coalition.

The main of these other parties is the second party of the Naleraq opposition party, which won a quarter of the participation of votes, favors rapid independence and has reserved warm words for the Trump administration.

The victory of two games that favor independence, which separates from Denmark is widely popular in Greenland, can be considered positive in Washington, where the interest in the world’s largest island has jumped sharply since Trump began his second mandate.

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