Murkowski votes ‘no’ on motion to adjourn to protest shutdown

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Thursday voted against the Senate adjourning for the weekend as the monthlong government shutdown inches toward another week.

With the Senate adjourned, she called it "business as usual."

"This is a missed opportunity to stay in town and hammer out an agreement," Murkowski said in a post on the social media site X. "I asked to be recorded as a 'no' on the motion to adjourn. We shouldn’t be going home. Just ask the air traffic cont...