I’ve been working hard getting our NCAA Tournament forecasts ready for Selection Sunday. So I’d barely been paying attention to the drama in the Senate, where Republicans were trying to gather votes for a budget resolution to avert a government shutdown by midnight tonight.

First, the cohosts reviewed footage of Schumer justifying his decision by saying, “The CR is bad. It’s a whole lot worse to shut down the government. Elon Musk, DOGE, and Donald Trump will use the power to shut down the government to fire hundreds of thousands,