nevertheless, katy, common sense doesn t necessarily always prevail here with these things. even though the majority of senate republicans say they don t want to do this, all it really takes is one or in this case three to gum up the process. what could effectively happen here is that if these several conservative republicans don t get what they want on vaccine mandate amendments, they could basically make this a slower process than it needs to be to avert that friday at midnight shutdown deadline. the basic order and regular order of the senate takes several days to go through this process. if every senator agreed that they wanted to speed this up, they could, but that doesn t look like the reality right now. so what could happen is that a government shutdown could be a casualty of just senate procedure going along through its regular timetable. what that means is we could see a shutdown over the weekend that ends early next week if this timetable holds. this is not just the light