Several Senate Democrats privately signal after lengthy closed-door lunch they expect that enough of their colleagues will vote to break a Democratic filibuster and let the House GOP stop-gap plan become law.
Everything is very fluid, so it's still unclear how this plays out and could change again.
But there's a growing belief that there will at least eight Dems who will vote to break a filibuster. Vote scheduled for tomorrow.
Schumer going to the floor soon to lay out his latest thinking.
Meantime, a warning from some Ds not to capitulate to the GOP demands, as they argue the CR is worse than a shutdown and would give Trump more power.
Booker: "This is saying, let's just give up even more of our Constitutional authority, because, hey, he can do a lot worse later on. And so to me, that's capitulating to someone who's already showing that he's reckless and willing to do a lot of destruction... We are in a perverse bizarro land where we're having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way."
If they vote to break a filibuster, it will demonstrate the cowardice and lack of cohesive message that currently seems to afflict the Democratic Party.
