Government shutdown: Senate to vote again on funding with little hope of passage

The Senate connected Friday is poised to vote erstwhile again connected dueling funding bills that would extremity the three-day-old government shutdown earlier it stretches into adjacent week.

But determination is small denotation that either Republicans' "clean" resolution, which would resume backing astatine existent levels done precocious November, oregon Democrats' version, which includes further health-care backing and different measures, volition pass.

The aforesaid competing resolutions person already failed aggregate times successful the Senate, including connected the eve of the shutdown and aft it began Wednesday morning.

If they neglect again, the enclosure is expected to adjourn for the weekend.

The Senate is expected to convene for votes starting astatine 1:30 p.m. ET.

Both parties' leaders truthful acold person shown much involvement successful convincing Americans that the different is to blasted for the impasse than successful moving retired a compromise.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., connected Friday accused his Democratic opponents of being cowed by the acold near of their enactment into obstructing President Donald Trump's agenda.

"It's each astir President Trump and the Democrats needing to prime a combat to fulfill their acold near governmental base, acold near activistic organizations who are the process wagging the canine close now," Thune said. "That's each this is about."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said earlier connected MSNBC that the president bears responsibility.

Trump "is successful the statesmanlike witnesser extortion programme — nary 1 tin find him erstwhile it comes to the authorities shutdown issue, due to the fact that helium knows he's liable for having caused it," Jeffries said.

Meanwhile, the backing lapse is expected to pb to the furlough of an estimated 750,000 national employees and trigger the impermanent closure of a slew of authorities programs and offices.

The Trump administration, which was already moving to shrink the size of the government, is informing that the shutdown could pb to imperishable layoffs of thousands of national workers — contempt that not happening during anterior backing lapses.

Trump said Thursday that Democrats gave him an "unprecedented opportunity" to chopped what helium described arsenic "Democrat Agencies."

While it was unclear precisely what that meant, Trump's informing came a time aft his medication froze $18 cardinal successful Department of Transportation funds for 2 large infrastructure projects successful New York City, and said the Department of Energy had cancelled astir $8 cardinal successful climate-related projects and different initiatives successful 16 states that Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris won successful the 2024 election.

On Friday morning, the DOT froze different $2.1 cardinal successful national funds allocated for Chicago's transit system.