Senate Democrats’ One Job

Chuck Schumer
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Today’s notice: Democrats are begging their senators not to let September be a repeat of March. Epstein files!? Trump is alive, folks. And: An exclusive look at a new PhRMA ad buy.

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Under pressure: Democratic groups from all different ideological points of view are telling us the same thing: this upcoming spending fight cannot be anything like the last one, back in March.

The March continuing resolution led to a very bad headache for Chuck Schumer.

What interest groups want: A fight over health care. Indivisible told us this. Mainstream Democratic strategists told us this. “If there is indeed a shutdown, Democrats must make it over something that voters care deeply about, not the activists,” Third Way’s Jim Kessler said. “That’s health care.”