U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks adjacent to Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) during a property league astatine the U.S. Capitol connected the 3rd time of a partial authorities shutdown, connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 3, 2025.
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The Senate is acceptable to ballot again connected Wednesday connected competing Republican and Democratic funding proposals to extremity the government shutdown, which stretched into its eighth time with nary hint of advancement toward a resolution.
The dueling stopgap measures volition beryllium the last 2 successful a bid of 3 votes that were scheduled to statesman astatine 11:20 a.m. ET. The resolutions failed to walk successful 5 erstwhile votes.
Both parties' leaders blasted each different for the shutdown, which began connected Oct. 1.
Republicans, who clasp slim majorities successful some chambers of Congress, privation a short-term measurement that volition resume backing the U.S. authorities astatine existent levels done Nov. 21.
Democrats request that immoderate specified measure see health-care protections — particularly an hold of enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are acceptable to expire astatine the extremity of this year.
"Republicans are shutting down the authorities due to the fact that they garbage to hole and code the situation successful American healthcare," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said earlier the votes began.
Republicans presently request astir 8 votes from senators successful the Democratic caucus to walk their short-term backing measurement to flooded the Senate's 60-vote filibuster rules.
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President Donald Trump and his chap Republicans person mostly refused to negociate with Democrats, whom they impeach of holding the authorities hostage.
The Democrats' backing connection "doesn't walk here, doesn't walk the House, wouldn't get signed into instrumentality by the president," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said connected the enclosure level aft Schumer.
The White House has besides warned that national workers volition beryllium fired, and floated the anticipation of denying backmost wage to furloughed employees, if the shutdown drags connected overmuch longer.
But House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said connected Wednesday that helium agrees that national instrumentality requires furloughed workers to beryllium paid upon their instrumentality to work.
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— CNBC's Erin Doherty and Lillian Rizzo contributed to this report.
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