Government shutdown: Senate funding measures fail again as deadlock continues

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNBC

Published Fri, Oct 3 2025 12:51 PM EDT Updated 7 Min Ago


The Senate on Friday once again did not pass dueling funding bills that would have kept the three-day-old government shutdown from stretching into next week.

The latest attempts to pass both Republicans' "clean" resolution, which would resume funding at current levels through late November, and Democrats' version, which includes additional health-care funding and other measures, was expected not to succeed.

The same competing resolutions previously failed multiple times in the Senate, including on the eve of the shutdown and after it began Wednesday morning.

The shutdown is now all but guaranteed to drag on until at least Monday.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/government-shutdown-updates-thune-trump.html

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Democrats' bill - S.2882 - Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026 [/b

Roll Call (cloture) - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00542.htm

Vote Counts:
YEAs 46
NAYs 52
Not Voting 2

GOP bill - H.R.5371 - Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026

Roll Call (cloture) - https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00543.htm

Vote Counts:
YEAs 54
NAYs 44
Not Voting 2

Not votings for both bills -

Not Voting - 2
Coons (D-DE)
Moran (R-KS)

[riversedge]

1. and the #TrumpShutDown continues!!

[BumRushDaShow]

3. They rejected the GOP bill within the hour too (waiting for the roll call tally to go live to update)

[Deminpenn]

2. If Senate Rs want this bill so bad, they can eliminate the legislative

fillibuster at any time. All they need is 50 votes (there are 53 Rs). Vance can be the tie-breaking vote. Then they can pass whatever legislation they please.

The dirty little secret is, Rs don't want to pass this bill because if they did, they'd get 100% of the blame for the bad consequences of their actions.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Yup. That would be "full nuclear"

and full blame.

[Deminpenn]

6. If I were Schumer, I'd call the Rs bluff and propose a rules

change to eliminate the legislative fillibuster.

This perhaps would be short term pain, but when Dems retake control of the Senate, it would be long term gain. No longer would liberal, progressive and common sense legislation be held hostage to the tryanny of the minority.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. The "concerneds" among the GOP might not provide enough votes to do it

and even if they did, we would see abortions and same sex marriages "officially" (legislatively) banned, and all kinds of other draconian things implemented. But I expect 45 would eventually try to force Thune to do it, so I would let the GOP completely own it and not have our name attached to encouraging it (especially when you have John Roberts calling the shots).

[Deminpenn]

10. I don't think you would see all those draconian bills

Republicans always use the social/cultural issues to appeal to conservative voters, but they don't actually care about them. They care about tax cuts and privatizing profits/socializing costs for businesses and staying in power for its own sake. Passing bills to implement all their culture boogeymen would result in a huge backlash.

I do agree with you that if Dems brought ending the legislative fillibuster, it would not pass because not enough Rs wouldn't vote for it. What it would do is give Dems the leverage to counter the idea the GOP talking point that Dems are the ones keeping the government shut.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. "they don't actually care about them. They care about tax cuts and privatizing profits/socializing costs"

The "corporate" concerneds are always there. But the MAGat "base" has been expanded to include the very scum of the earth bigots - racists (including white supremacists), sexists, homophobes, antisemites, transphobes, and xenophobes.

This has gone beyond their usual "culture war rhetoric". They have actually appointed "officials" in the federal government who have been given the power to literally ENACT policies that -

-banned books
-removed women out of higher offices in the military and on federal Commissions/Boards
-fired employees "not like them" who attempt to follow the law
-purged museums, memorials, and exhibits of non-white historical artifacts and narratives
-pulled funding from programs designed to protect the marginalized and expand opportunities for the oppressed
-censored language that does not promote their bigotry

If one is a white, straight, Christian male, then the above is of no concern because it doesn't impact that group and these acts can be easily be waved away, where the affected groups are summarily declared as being "hysterical".

[turbinetree]

5. Hey Thune you hypocrite your bunch created this shit show not once but twice, in fact did you support

to impeach your fucking authoritarian fascist wanna be KING.................nope...............and then you have a court mind you that supports your wet dream..............and gave him immunity and use the shadow docket to really fuck with the rule of law................and then to top it all off ...............you have health care while you want to fuck over 17 million plus people/kids and then attack those of us on Medicare next year.............and you want cloture.....and you want a democrat to play nice..............pound sand and resign.................

[modrepub]

8. House Is Still On Recess, Right?

How isn’t this point not brought up?!? We don’t have a budget and half the government is not even in session. Republicans aren’t serious about this situation and no one is calling them out. What a surprise

[BumRushDaShow]

9. They are off until after Columbus Day.