Senate Democrats ensure government shutdown continues into next week

Senate Democrats blocked Republicans’ makes an attempt to reopen the federal government for the tenth time and have ensured that the shutdown will take impact subsequent week.

That is as a result of, after a sequence of ultimate votes afterward Thursday, lawmakers will depart Washington DC for one more lengthy weekend after simply three quick days on the Hill.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are keen to again down from their entrenched positions, and the bipartisan talks, whereas largely casual workout routines, are starting to fade.

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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats stay unwilling to budge from their place because the shutdown continues. Schumer dodged whether or not he would compromise with the Republican occasion and mentioned he wouldn’t negotiate publicly. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)

Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., is set to proceed alongside the identical path and convey the Home-passed continuation decision (CR), which might reopen the federal government till November 21, to the ground many times.

Whereas some within the Republican Get together are contemplating a brand new finish date for the CR, that may require the Home, which has been out of session for almost a month, to come back again and move a brand new one.

Whereas Thune and Republicans are adamant that their plan is the one path to ending the shutdown, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, DY, and the Senate Democratic caucus nonetheless wish to make a deal on the expiration of Obamacare subsidies now on Day 16 — and so they need President Donald Trump to get immediately concerned within the negotiations.

“We’re keen to have conversations, as I mentioned, on no matter different points they wish to discuss,” Thune mentioned. “However that may’t occur so long as they maintain the federal authorities and all these federal workers and our troops and our air visitors controllers and our TSA brokers and our Border Patrol officers hostage. Open the federal government.”

REPUBLICANS RUN AS DEMOCRATS BLOCK GOP’S 9TH BID TO REOPEN GOVERNMENT

Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., desires to revive the federal government funding course of, however Senate Democrats seem unwilling to assist his efforts. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)

“Day-after-day this continues, the issues turn into better for federal staff and for on a regular basis Individuals,” he continued. “Chuck Schumer might imagine issues are getting higher for them politically day-after-day, however I can inform you that isn’t the expertise of the American individuals.”

When requested if he would compromise on Democrats’ calls for because the shutdown continued, Schumer deflected and responded that he wouldn’t negotiate within the public eye.

“The underside line is [Republicans] will not even negotiate with us,” Schumer mentioned. “In order that’s a untimely query. However in fact I am not going to barter in public. We should handle the disaster that affects, and that’s the proper phrase: the American individuals.”

Nevertheless, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., mentioned Republicans weren’t engaged on a grant proposal to indicate Democrats, noting that talks between the events have been “not likely” taking place anymore.

When requested if it was doable to get a credit score extension earlier than the November 1 open enrollment date, he mentioned, “I do not assume there is a means to do this.”

“And I believe if you do not get it finished by Christmas, it turns into a political challenge,” Mullin mentioned. “However you may perhaps push it to January, to February, if you happen to needed to, however we’re going through the primaries of everybody from the Democratic primaries to the Republican primaries, and it turns into a political challenge as a result of well being care is sadly political.”

REPUBLICANS LEAD TO NEW FUNDING BATTLE AS SHUTDOWN STANDOFF CONTINUES

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., votes on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

Republicans are additionally making an attempt to revive the Senate appropriations course of because the shutdown continues. Thune later Thursday held a procedural vote on the Senate protection spending invoice, which might, amongst different issues, fund paychecks for the army.

Whether or not Democrats assist the spending invoice after months of demanding a bipartisan authorities funding course of stays an open query. Many argued after their closed-door assembly Wednesday that they didn’t know precisely what Republicans would carry to the desk and considered a vote on it as moot.

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As in a lot of the previous ten makes an attempt to ship the Home-passed CR to Trump’s desk, the identical trio of Democratic caucus members, Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Angus King, I-Maine, voted with Senate Republicans.

Fetterman, who has constantly voted with the Republican Get together each time, echoed his colleagues throughout the aisle and mentioned all exterior points other than reopening the federal government could possibly be handled after the lights got here again on in Washington.

“It was fallacious to shut it in March,” he mentioned. “I am in the identical place. It is not going to vary. Every part else we’re speaking about, open the federal government first, after which we will determine the remainder.”