Schumer backs GOP's plan to bring the pain during future shutdowns: 'I'm going to vote for it'

Senate Republicans' gamble to inflict pain on themselves to thwart future shutdowns just got an unlikely backer: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

The upper chamber is set to vote on Sen. John Kennedy's, R-La., resolution on Wednesday that would prevent senators from getting a paycheck during a government shutdown. It's a tool that Republicans hope will give them leverage in preventing Democrats from again shuttering the government in the fall.

And Schumer, who has led Democrats through two shutdowns in the last year...