The Senate on Tuesday, as expected, failed to approve a GOP stopgap to keep the government funded or a Democratic alternative, edging the government closer to a midnight shutdown.
The votes came at the end of a day notable for the lack of public work being done by either party to prevent a shutdown.
Normally, the hours and days before the prospect of a shutdown on Capitol Hill are filled with scenes of lawmakers and aides scurrying about to negotiate possible sett...
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Democrats defeat Republican funding plan, taking government to brink of shutdown
The Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted almost in unison to defeat a House-passed bill to fund the government through Nov. 21, putting Washington on the brink of a government shutdown that could last for days or even weeks.
Democrats are jittery about how the likely shutdown will play out over the next several days after President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he would take “irreversible” actions to gut their priorities during a shutdown.
But they eme...
Senate rejects Democrats’ spending bill hours ahead of expected shutdown
The Senate on Tuesday spurned a Democratic stopgap spending bill, putting lawmakers a step closer to a government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline.
Lawmakers voted along party lines, 47-53, on advancing the package, which includes an extension of government funding and about $1 trillion in health care provisions. It needed 60 votes to advance.
The vote came ahead of a second planned vote on the GOP’s House-passed, “clean” continuing resolution, ...
Watch live: Senate votes on averting government shutdown
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...
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 ...