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