U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) holds a duplicate of the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act as he speaks subsequent to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) throughout a press convention on the third day of a partial shutdown of the federal authorities on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S. October 3, 2025.
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The Senate on Friday as soon as again didn’t cross dueling funding payments that may have stored the three-day-old government shutdown from stretching into subsequent week.
The newest makes an attempt to cross each Republicans’ “clean” decision, which might resume funding at present ranges by way of late November, and Democrats’ model, which incorporates further health-care funding and different measures, was anticipated to not succeed.
The similar competing resolutions beforehand failed a number of instances within the Senate, together with on the eve of the shutdown and after it started Wednesday morning.
The shutdown is now all however assured to tug on till at the very least Monday.
Both events’ leaders to date have proven extra curiosity in convincing Americans that the opposite is accountable for the deadlock than in figuring out a compromise.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Friday accused his Democratic opponents of being cowed by the far left of their celebration into obstructing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“It’s all about President Trump and the Democrats needing to pick a fight to satisfy their far left political base, far left activist organizations who are the tail wagging the dog right now,” Thune mentioned. “That’s all this is about.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., mentioned earlier on MSNBC that the president bears duty.
Trump “is in the presidential witness protection program — no one can find him when it comes to the government shutdown issue, because he knows he’s responsible for having caused it,” Jeffries mentioned.
Meanwhile, the funding lapse is anticipated to result in the furlough of an estimated 750,000 federal employees and set off the short-term closure of a slew of presidency packages and places of work.
The Trump administration, which was already working to shrink the scale of the federal government, is warning that the shutdown may result in everlasting layoffs of hundreds of federal staff — regardless of that not taking place throughout prior funding lapses.
Trump mentioned Thursday that Democrats gave him an “unprecedented opportunity” to chop what he described as “Democrat Agencies.”
While it was unclear exactly what that meant, Trump’s warning got here a day after his administration froze $18 billion in Department of Transportation funds for 2 huge infrastructure initiatives in New York City, and mentioned the Department of Energy had cancelled practically $8 billion in climate-related initiatives and different initiatives in 16 states that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris received within the 2024 election.
On Friday morning, the DOT froze one other $2.1 billion in federal funds allotted for Chicago’s transit system.
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