Senate Democrats voted for a 14th time to keep the federal government closed on Tuesday, marking the 35th day of the shutdown.<\/p>\n
While speaking with reporters on Tuesday about \u201chow close\u201d bipartisan talks are to reaching a solution, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, \u201cI hope close, but the pressures, the cross-pressures that everybody\u2019s feeling, are great.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think there are people who realize this has gone on long enough and there\u2019s been enough pain inflicted on the American people and it\u2019s time to end it,\u201d Thune said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see whether the sufficient numbers are there.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s doing \u201ceverything he can\u201d to make it clear what Republicans are willing to do on appropriations, funding the government, and changes to Obamacare.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the universe I think is pretty defined and established,\u201d he said. \u201cThe question is whether or not they take yes for an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The South Dakota Republican said he\u2019s hopeful that \u201cwe\u2019ll make some progress\u201d this week, saying \u201cwe are trying to land this appropriations bill on which I think a continuing resolution could ride, and obviously we\u2019re going to have to extend the date as everybody knows because we\u2019re already up against the November deadline right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ll see in the next few days where it goes,\u201d Thune added. House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about the possibility of extending the funding date in the House-passed continuing resolution. He said the House would return to vote on any change that the Senate manages to pass.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the Senate passes something, of course we\u2019ll come back,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe\u2019re running out of clock, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said he favors extending the date until January rather than December.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a fan of extending it to December, because, let\u2019s be frank, a lot of people around here have PTSD about Christmas omnibus spending bills. We don\u2019t want to do that. It gets too close, and we don\u2019t want to have that risk. We\u2019re not doing that. Too many people have concerns,\u201d the speaker said. \u201cI think putting it into January makes sense, but we\u2019ve got to obviously build consensus around that. There\u2019s some discussion about it. We\u2019ll see where it lands. I\u2019m not sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican, told reporters Tuesday morning that he\u2019s \u201cpretty confident\u201d the shutdown will end this week, saying it could be resolved Wednesday night, or more likely on Thursday or Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t make sense out of crazy, and that\u2019s where Chuck Schumer\u2019s been this whole time, and it\u2019s hard to fight politics and policy at the same time,\u201d Mullin said. \u201cBut I will tell you there\u2019s enough Democrats that I\u2019m friends with that were willing to vote last week, and they were assured that Schumer would let them vote the way they need to this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump recently urged Senate Republicans to invoke the \u201cnuclear option\u201d \u2014 a rules change that would allow legislation to pass with a simple majority vote \u2014 in order to bring an end to the 30-day government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Trump also claimed that Democratic demands to reopen the government, such as $1.5 trillion in new spending that will include healthcare funds that will go to illegal aliens, \u201cwill hurt American citizens, and Republicans will not let it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 60-vote threshold required to advance legislation in the Senate has blocked Republicans from moving forward with a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government at pre-shutdown levels.<\/p>\n
Since federal funding expired on Oct. 1, all but three Senate Democrats have voted against the Trump-backed measure more than a dozen times.<\/p>\n
Republicans currently need five additional votes to move the bill ahead.<\/p>\n
In addition to ending what has become known as the \u201cSchumer Shutdown,\u201d after Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Trump pointed to \u201call of the other things we would get\u201d without the legislative filibuster, \u201csuch as the best Judges, the best US Attorneys, the best of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senate Democrats voted for a 14th time to keep the federal government closed on Tuesday, marking the 35th day of the shutdown. While speaking with reporters on Tuesday about \u201chow close\u201d bipartisan talks are to reaching a solution, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, \u201cI hope close, but the pressures, the cross-pressures that everybody\u2019s feeling, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8601,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions\/8601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}