Democratic and Republican proposals fail to cross 60-vote threshold as impasse persists and Trump plots more cuts
The US government remained shut down for a third straight day on Friday, with no signs that congressional leaders had made progress on reaching an agreement to restart operations.
Senators convened in the afternoon to vote for a fourth time on competing Democratic and Republican proposals to restart funding. Neither bill won enough support to cross the 60-vote threshold for advancement, and no lawmakers changed their votes from recent days.
The legislative deadlock ensures the first federal shutdown since 2019 will continue into next week, as the Trump administration threatens furthers cuts to the federal work and cancellation of funding for an array of projects.
The dems have totally reasonable demands.
They shouldn’t stop until they are met.
It would be better to keep the shutdown going until 2029 when Trump is gone or dead than it would be to give the Republicans another inch twoards fascism.
If Trump is whining about the shutdown then it’s a good thing.
The whining is for show. As of October 1st they can start the reconciliation process for the spending bill/budget. Thus meaning they could pass all the spending to all of the departments to keep them open with a 51 vote count after allowing for 20 hours of consideration. That 20 hours would be up by now and the government re-opened IF A, the Republicans voted for their bill, and B they wanted the government running normally.
So one has to ask… Why don’t they want to government running normally
If you have Democrat congressors, call them and tell them you support them, that you don’t blame them for the shutdown, and to hold strong and that the only way you’ll vote for them again is if they don’t cave.
If you have Republican congressors, ask them why they shut the government down instead of accepting the Democrat’s fair, common-sense additions. Make sure they know you blame them.
Trump & co. are using every resource they have right now to make you think this is the Democrat’s fault. It isn’t. Don’t be a mark. We’re careening towards a cliff right now and the only people in the world with a brake pedal are a handful of Democrats in the Senate. Let them use it.
FIGHT LIKE HELL!!!
Seems like everything’s been okay with the fed shutdown. Maybe we should shut it down permanently and just let states govern themselves
Of course this shutdown is a total accident/s
