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Senate -Democrats On Tuesday afternoon, he again blocked the short -term extension of the Republicans, which further increased the chances of partial closure of the government and thousands of federal workers without salaries.
Democratic lawmakers in the upper house, led by the leader of the minority in the Senate Chuck SchumerDn.Y., united to vote against the ongoing resolution of the Republican Party (CR), the step that the Democrats noted the second time, impeded the progress of the law this month.
Congress should be up to midnight to pass CR, otherwise the government will turn off. Nevertheless, the probability that this happened is becoming more and more unlikely during the day, since the Republicans and Democrats hid behind closed doors in separate meetings a few hours before the vote.
The bill, which was adopted by the Chamber of the Republican Party at the beginning of this month, fell mainly from party votes, 55-45. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Was the only Republican who voted against the bill, while Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortes Masto, D-Nev. And Angus King, I-Maine, crossed the passage to vote for the expansion of financing.
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Senate democrats proposed a counter-protocus for the short-term expansion of the Republicans in the Congress, which includes political riders, which are a red line for the Republican Party. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Democrats also tried to advance their own counter-protocus, but this bill was also blocked by the Republicans in the Senate.
There is still time to prevent a partial shutdown, but the window quickly closes. If Schumer and Tun cannot find the way forward, this will celebrate the third closure under the president Donald TrumpField
When he was asked if he believes that the closure is inevitable, Trump said: “Nothing is inevitable.”
“But I would say that this is probably because they want to give medical care to illegal immigrants, which will destroy healthcare for everyone else in our country,” he told reporters in the oval office. “And I did not see how they bend a little when I said that we could not do this.”
Republicans want to go through a “pure” short -term extension until November 21, which would give the guards the time to finish expenses, while the Democrats want to extend the expiring subsidies Obamacare Premium, among many other requirements.
But the chances of the implementation of the transaction, especially the one that meets the requirements of the Democrats, is small. Both Senate leaders exchanged thorns during the day, first on the floor in the Senate, and then at press conferences.
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President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, not depicted, in the oval office of the White House in Washington, the County of Colombia, April 7, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/ABACA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Thune Parnect Democrats seeks to extend expirational tax benefits that are not subject to sunset before the end of this year, as well as their other requirements to cancel the medical part of Trump and Clawback canceled the financing of NPR and PBS.
Republicans argue that the cancellation of abbreviations from Megabill Trump and the abolition of the abolition of public broadcasting will be 1.5 trillion dollars for expenses for their short -term expansion of financing.
“This is what they require as part of their so-called negotiations,” Tong said. “Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing here to agree.”
Schumer, however, objected that the decision to close the government was “in their court”, and claimed that the Democrats were working on the decision of the “health crisis” of the Republican Party.
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The internal note from the White House Management and Budget Department, received by Fox News, warns agencies in reducing measures by strength if the government cannot be avoided by October 1, 2025. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
Nevertheless, despite the fact that he won the meeting in the oval office with the leaders of the Republicans of Trump and Congress, in addition to state guarantees from Thune and Republicans, that Obamacare tax benefits can be discussed after Turning off He was prevented, Schumer demanded that the Democrats be included in negotiations to create a bicom -party bill.
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Earlier on the same day, the chief democrat of the Senate commanded the table of the floors from Thune, which showed how many times the Democrats supported CRS under the former president Joe BidenHe said that each time the Republicans were involved in the process.
“As a leader, I sat each of the Republicans with the Republicans and created a two -party bill. Their bill is partisans. They call him clean. We call him partisan. “Tun never talked to me.”
