Senate to vote on funding bills again

The US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks next to Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hi) and senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn) at a press conference in the US Capitol in Capitol Hill on October 3, 2025 in Washington, DC, USA, on October 3, 2025.
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On Wednesday, the Senate is preparing to vote again for rival republican and democratic financing proposals to end the closure of the government extending to the eighth day without a clue to a decision.
The duel stop measures will be the last two in the three series of votes planned to start at 11:20 am Eat. The decisions did not pass by five votes.
Both sides blame each other for the closure that started on October 1.
Republicans, which have thin majority in both rooms of the Congress, want a short -term measures that will continue to finance the US government at existing levels until November 21st.
The Democrats demand that any such bill includes health care protections-an extension of advanced obamacare subsidies, which will end at the end of this year.
The Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said before the votes, “Republicans are closing the government because he refused to correct and address the crisis in American health services.” He said.
Republicans are currently needing about eight votes from the senato of the Senate to overcome short -term financing measures to overcome the 60 voted Filibuster rules of the Senate.
President Donald Trump and Republicans greatly rejected negotiation with the democrats they accused of holding the government hostage.
RS.D. Senate majority leader John Thune, Schumer on the room floor “Democrats’ fund proposal” does not pass here, the house does not pass, the President will not enter the law, “he said.
The White House also warned that the federal workers would be fired and the closure refused to pay to furry employees if the closure is dragged for a long time.
However, the Speaker of the Assembly Mike Johnson, R-La. In a statement on Wednesday, he said that the federal law requires the payment to fur workers after returning to the workplace.
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– Erin Doherty and Lillian Rizzo from CNBC contributed to this report.



