US government shutdown enters third day, expected to last past weekend

The United States authorities shutdown has entered a 3rd time aft the Senate failed to scope a woody connected a important spending measure earlier observing Yom Kippur.

The Senate level was unfastened connected Thursday, but it did not ballot owed to the holiday, Judaism’s holiest time of the year.

The adjacent ballot is acceptable for Friday, but the chances of occurrence look slim.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters a play ballot is “unlikely,” which means the shutdown volition apt proceed into adjacent week.

Both Republican and Democratic spending bills person failed to scope the 60 retired of 100 ballot threshold to pass, arsenic senators proceed to ballot mostly down enactment lines.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a Republican, told CBS News the House of Representatives was moving connected a caller measure to contiguous to the Senate.

“The House is coming backmost adjacent week, hoping that they volition beryllium sending america thing to enactment on,” helium said successful an interrogation with the US quality outlet. “They’re anxious to travel back.”

Republicans are besides moving to triumph implicit idiosyncratic legislators. They clasp 53 seats successful the Senate to Democrats’ 45 seats. The Senate’s 2 independents – Angus King from Maine and Bernie Sanders from Vermont – typically ballot with Democrats, but not always.

King and a fewer Democrats, similar Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, voted successful favour of the Republican woody earlier this week, saying they feared a shutdown would origin much harm than good.

Trump has besides threatened to usage the shutdown to slash the national workforce, going against the longstanding signifier of furloughing hundreds of thousands of workers.

He said connected Truth Social that helium had met with Russ Vought, manager of the Office of Management and Budget, “to find which of the galore Democrat Agencies, astir of which are a governmental SCAM, helium recommends to beryllium cut, and whether oregon not those cuts volition beryllium impermanent oregon permanent”.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt besides confirmed connected Thursday that cuts were “likely going to beryllium successful the thousands”.

The White House has already frozen $26bn successful programmes successful Democratic states similar California, New York, and Illinois.

Democrats are trying to usage the spending measure to summation concessions from Republicans connected healthcare, pursuing large cuts earlier this twelvemonth by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

They privation Republicans to o.k. subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, and reverse cuts successful Medicaid assistance for non-US citizens.

Ernst and Young predicted successful precocious September that each week of shutdown would outgo the US system astir $7bn.