evidence: Earlier, on the Senate floor, Schumer said averting a shutdown requires resisting the demands of the "extreme hard right, who want to burn everything down." [...] Without the two stopgap measures, part of the federal government would shut down early Saturday, and the rest would shutter a week later. Johnson had proposed moving the two deadlines to March 8 and March 22, two sources familiar with the negotiations said. [...] There is broad agreement among the congressional leaders that a shutdown would be fruitless.