The leader of the majority of the US Senate, John Thune, rs.d., talks with reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday, September 19, 2025 (photo of Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
Washington-Republicans of the US Chamber adopted a seven-week act on the financing of the Stopgap government on Friday, sending legislation to the Senate, which must approve it before October 1 to avoid closing.
Voting 217-212 For the second time this year, the Chamber approved the so -called continuous resolution in relation to the main voting in the party line, among the frustration of Democrats, that GOP leaders wrote the rules themselves after President Donald Trump said that he did not have to negotiate.
Democratic representative Maine Jared Golden was the only member of his party who supported the law. Representatives of Kentucky. Thomas Massie and Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz were the only Republicans who voted no.
At the moment, a fragment of the Senate is very unlikely.
Democratic leaders in this chamber sworn that they did not aid the Republicans who control the chamber, get 60 votes needed to pass through procedural voices – a clear contrast from March, when the democrats did, which led to significant frustration on the part of their colleagues from home.
The Senate is expected to accept procedural voices later on the day Bill GOP and Democrats. None of them will receive the votes needed to go to the final transition.
There is a great possibility that both chambers leave the Hill Capitol, and then Rosz Hashanah a week. Return on September 29, with less than 48 hours to download the contract and will get it to Trump’s desk.
Has an impasse calendar and a congress calendar I fell on a chance prolonged, deeply political government duel, which can last for weeks or even months.
“We only need more time”
The chairman of home remedies, Tom Cole, R-okla., Said that the Act on alloy expenditure was necessary to give legislators more time to transfer a dozen or so government expenditure accounts and called him a “responsible path”.
“We certainly go productively, and a double -sided, two -layer agreement is very at hand,” Cole said. “We only need more time to maintain negotiations and finish our work. That’s why we’re here today.”
Cole said that not approval of the Stopgap Act before starting the following financial year on October 1 would lead to closing and will make these conversations complex.
“Let me very clear, closing would do nothing to help our work on bills for the whole year or support the American people,” Cole said. “So if you want stability for the American people, if you want time to negotiate in good faith and if you want a regular order, you support this Cr. Every other voice would be reckless, not only for both sides, but for the whole nation.”
“Broken political system”
Representative Connecticut Rosa Delauro, the highest democrat in the committee, said that the decision of the Republicans to write the STOPGAP law signaled that they were not really interested in bilateral activities and that “reflects the damaged political system”.
“They would prefer to close the government than sit down and talk to democrats about a reduction in costs for millions of Americans, preventing people from being thrown out of their health care and stopping President Trump and the budget director of Russa from the theft of our communities and our voters”, Delauro.
She said that the unilateral activities of Trump’s administration on expenses make work on government financing more complicated, because democrats cannot trust the White House budget office in order to implement the regulations in accordance with the inscription.
“This administration still freezes, ends and cancels $ 410 billion in obligations towards families, farmers, children, small companies and communities in every part of our country,” said Delauro. “Billions of these obligations will soon be lost forever if the Congress refuses to limit the illegal activities of this administration.”
Republican and democratic alternatives
Republicans 91-page alloy expenditure account He would finance the government at current rates until November 21, giving legislators more time to complete work on year -round accounts.
This bill that was Published on Tuesday, It covers $ 30 million to return local police departments that ensure the security of legislators when they return to their home countries, $ 30 million for the US Marshals Service for “Protective services of executive departments” and $ 28 million to strengthen security for American judges of the Supreme Court.
Democrats, issued on Wednesday, would finance the government until October 31 and will permanently extend improved tax breaks for people who buy health insurance through the market of the Act on inexpensive care.
The legislation would reverse many healthcare proposals, which the Republicans covered their “large, beautiful” law, including significant changes and cutting of Medicaid financing.
Democrats 68-page account It would boost security funds much more than GOP proposals. An additional 30 million dollars would allocate to contracts for mutual assistance with local and state police departments, which ensure the safety of members in their domestic countries, $ 90 million will be provided to home security programs, and $ 66.5 million for Sergeant Senate at ARMS.
Federal courts, the Supreme Court and the US Marshals in the USA will be an additional $ 140 million.
No negotiations
Stopgap issuing bills is a relatively routine and double -sided part of the government financing from decades, to this year, when republican leaders have developed regulations.
Democrats have consistently said that if GOP leaders do not cooperate with them to develop a double -sided alloy, they cannot expect that democrats will vote for the final product.
Dresate, which is related to the process, as well as significant differences in politics, seems to lead to the first closure of the government from 2019.
This year, however, the expiry of financing will affect much larger swaths of the federal government than a 35-day closure.
When this deadlock began, the congress adopted five out of several governmental financial accounts, which means that everyone working for the congress or in the Department of Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Social Welfare, Work and Veterans’ matters had no influence.
The legislators have not yet adopted any of the bills for funds for the coming financial year, which means that every department and agency that make up the federal government will have to decide which employees work without remuneration and which will be disturbed if the closure begins.
These plans They were public in the past and appeared on the website of the management office and budget, but No tips were published From Friday afternoon.
The White House budget office did not respond to the Newsroom’s request about whether it intends to publish agency’s emergency plans.
Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report.
