The Senate is slated to vote on measures to keep the government open ahead of the midnight shutdown deadline.
There will be two votes considering proposals brought forth by Democrats and Republicans, respectively. Both measures are expected to fail as negotiations between party leaders have failed in recent days.
Democrats are seeking to fund the government through Oct. 31, permanently extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced health insurance premium subsidie...
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More blame would go to GOP than Democrats over shutdown: Poll
Republican lawmakers would get a larger share of blame for a government shutdown than their Democratic counterparts if lawmakers don't come to an agreement, a poll released Tuesday found.
The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, conducted last week, found that 38 percent of respondents would blame Republicans, while 27 percent would blame Democrats and 31 percent would fault both sides. Just 4 percent of respondents would blame neither party.
The poll results come hour...
Fetterman: Shutdown ‘would be the ideal outcome for Project 2025’
Hours before the government funding clock runs out, Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman said Tuesday that a shutdown would benefit President Trump.
“The president has a lot of levers he could pull. This is one we could pull but why would we pull that lever? Because that allows him to pull a lot more levers,” Fetterman told reporters on Capitol Hill.
“I think that would be the ideal for Project 2025,” he added, referring to the conservative Heritage Found...
Murkowski to vote for House-passed government funding measure
Moderate Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), one of two Republicans to vote against the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) earlier this month, said she will vote for it when it comes back to the floor Tuesday.
“We’ve got mere hours before the end of the fiscal year, and so I’ve got no options now,” said Murkowski, who has proposed a framework to keep the government open that would extend the expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies for a year.
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GOP lt. governors call on Senate Democrats to avoid shutdown
A group of Republican lieutenant governors drafted a letter to Senate leadership on Tuesday calling on Democrats in the Upper Chamber to pass a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
The letter, first obtained by The Hill, invokes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a handful of other congressional Democrats’ vote with Republicans last March to keep the government open, as well as 13 clean funding extensions that Congress during the Biden ...
Senate to vote Tuesday afternoon on averting shutdown, but proposals expected to fail
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he expects the Senate to begin voting at 5 p.m. Tuesday on competing Democratic and Republican proposals to fund the government, but both proposals are expected to fail to advance, putting Washington on the path to a government shutdown that will furlough tens of thousands of federal workers.
Thune said he expects the votes to happen late Tuesday afternoon but cautioned the time agreement for votes isn’t yet “locked in.”
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The Movement: Conservatives warn against ObamaCare compromise in shutdown fight
Conservatives are not at the center of the government shutdown that looks set to begin at midnight.
But they are poised to make it more difficult to end if it begins.
Democrats are demanding that Republicans address health care priorities as they reject the GOP-crafted, “clean” seven-week stopgap.
In particular, they want to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
The clearest way ...
Blame game escalates on shutdown verge
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Centrists give up hope to prevent shutdown as Trump talks fizzle
Centrist senators are giving up hope of avoiding a government shutdown this week after a contentious meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders Monday failed to make progress on a short-term funding bill.
One Democratic senator who requested anonymity said it’s now highly unlikely that Trump and congressional leaders will reach any preliminary agreement to allow a funding bill to pass by Tuesday’s deadline.
The source said both GOP and Democratic le...
Shutdown odds rise as leaders leave White House without progress
Congressional leaders left a meeting with President Trump on Monday saying they'd made no progress toward a deal that would prevent a shutdown on Wednesday, increasing the odds the government's lights will turn off in less than 48 hours.
Democrats have been pining for action to extend health care subsidies that are set to expire by year’s end, with Republicans adamant that their stopgap spending bill is a take-it-or-leave-it offer.
Each side said littl...