{"id":17796,"date":"2025-10-16T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17796"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:19:35","slug":"senate-democrats-block-gop-plan-to-end-shutdown-for-10th-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17796","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Block GOP Plan To End Shutdown for 10th Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Democrats blocked the clean GOP House-passed short-term funding bill on Thursday for the 10th time since the federal government shut down nearly two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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Senate Democrats have ensured that the shutdown will continue into next week because legislators will leave Washington, D.C., for another extended weekend after a final series of votes on Thursday, following only three short days in session.<\/p>\n

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are willing to compromise on their firmly established viewpoints, and discussions between the two parties, although primarily informal, have started to diminish.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is resolute in his intention to persistently present the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), which would reopen the government until November 21, for repeated votes.<\/p>\n

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Although several members of the GOP are contemplating a revised expiration date for the continuing resolution, this would necessitate the House, which has been in recess for nearly a month, to reconvene and enact a new resolution.<\/p>\n

Despite Thune and the Republicans\u2019 insistence that their strategy is the sole solution to the ongoing shutdown, now in its 16th day, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Senate Democratic caucus are still seeking to negotiate a resolution regarding the expiration of Obamacare subsidies, urging President Donald Trump to engage directly in the discussions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re willing to have, as I said, conversations about all the other issues that they want to talk about,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that can\u2019t happen while they are holding the federal government and all these federal employees and our troops and our air traffic controllers and our TSA agents and our border Patrol officials hostage. Open up the government,\u201d Thune added.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day that this goes on, the problems are compounded for federal workers and for ordinary Americans. Chuck Schumer may think that every day gets better for them politically, but I can tell you that is not the experience of the American people,\u201d Thune added.<\/p>\n

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When asked if he would compromise on the Democrats\u2019 demands as the shutdown dragged on, Schumer dodged and countered that he wouldn\u2019t negotiate in the public eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is [Republicans] won\u2019t even negotiate with us,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cSo that\u2019s a premature question. But of course, I\u2019m not going to negotiate in public. We need to address the crisis that is afflicted, and that\u2019s the right word, the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said that Republicans weren\u2019t working on a subsidy proposal to show Democrats, and he noted that talks between the parties had stalled.<\/p>\n

When asked if it was possible to get an extension of the credits before the Nov. 1 open enrollment date, he said, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a way to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think if you don\u2019t have it done by Christmas, it becomes a political issue,\u201d Mullin said. \u201cBut you could maybe push it to January, to February, if you wanted to, but we get bumped up against, you know, everybody\u2019s primaries, from the Democrat primaries and Republican primaries, and it becomes a political issue, because, unfortunately, healthcare is political.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans are attempting to revive the appropriations process in the Senate amid the ongoing shutdown.<\/p>\n

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Thune scheduled a procedural vote on Thursday over the Senate\u2019s defense funding measure, which would allocate funds for military salaries, among other provisions.<\/p>\n

The question of whether Democrats will endorse the spending bill, following months of advocating for a bipartisan government funding process, remains unresolved.<\/p>\n

Many contended after their private meeting on Wednesday that they were uncertain about the specifics Republicans would present and deemed a vote on it irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Similar to the previous ten efforts to forward the House-approved continuing resolution to Trump\u2019s desk, the same trio of Democratic caucus members\u2014Senators John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Angus King (I-Maine)\u2014aligned with Senate Republicans in their vote.<\/p>\n

Fetterman, who has typically aligned his votes with the GOP, reiterated the sentiments of his colleagues across the aisle, asserting that any external matters unrelated to the government\u2019s reopening could be addressed after restoring operations in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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