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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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Trump floats cutting benefits during shutdown, warns Democrats are taking a risk
President Trump suggested Tuesday that his administration can make cuts to programs during a potential government shutdown, warning that Democrats are taking a risk by not voting for the GOP continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 21.
“We don’t want it to shut down,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them. Like cutting vast numbers of people out, c...
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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HUD plasters shutdown warning about ‘radical left’ on website
The Department of Housing and Urban Development plastered a statement across its homepage Tuesday blaming the “radical left” for threats of a government shutdown.
“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands,” the website statement reads.
“The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people,” it added.
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