NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! 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, plans to support it. SENATE WEIGHS NEW, PAINFUL LEVERAGE TACTIC AS FEARS OF ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN GROW Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news briefing with Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., after a Senate Democratic luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2026. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) "I'm going to vote for it," Schumer said.…