GOP, Thune surprise Democrats, daring them to block defense spending bill during shutdown

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has amazed Democrats by scheduling a ballot Thursday connected advancing the $852 cardinal defence appropriations measure successful the midst of the authorities shutdown. The defence measurement successful July passed retired of the Appropriations Committee with beardown Democratic enactment — 26 to 3 — but the governmental calculus has changed…