THUNE uses the deadline for closing to put pressure on democrats on the financing of the bill

The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., wants to jam the Democrats of the Senate with the extension of short -term financing of the GOP, but so far, they are not ready to play ball.

The Republicans and Democrats of the High Chamber blocked the duel of continuous resolutions (CR) of the two parties last week and now left Washington, DC, until September 29, effectively giving legislators in the upper room only two working days before the deadline of September 30.

Both sides are an impasse. The Senate republicans argue that the “clean” extension, which would last until November 21 and has no partisan policy runners, is all that the Democrats dreamed when they controlled the upper room.

The plan approved by Trump to avoid the government closure was scuttled by the Senate

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., has taken a tour of the Democrats in the Senate for their resistance to an extension of government financing. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The Senate Democrats led by the head of the Minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., however, argue that they want a siege at the negotiating table and that subsidies at the Obamacare expire must be treated now, rather than at the end of the year.

“They try to use what they think is a lever to do a lot of things,” said Thune. “It will never happen. I mean, can you imagine something in this bill they have sent that we voted today, by transmitting to the House of Republican Representatives? Absolutely not. It is simply not serious.”

The proposal of the Democrats included a permanent extension of subsidies at the expiration of Obamacare, financing posters canceled for NPR and PBS, and this would have repealed the health provisions in the “big and beautiful invoices” of President Donald Trump – which would reverse the hospital fund of nearly a million dollars in the Cups of Medicaid Donald Trump while getting rid of the Rural Hospital Fund $.

“They are not serious,” said Thune. “This is just a composure partisan political attempt to try to score political points with a left base.”

Although it has not removed the table option, it is unlikely that Thune interrupt this recess. Instead, he wants to use the imminent deadline to support the Democrats of the Senate in a corner. The president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La., Also played in this strategy when he announced that the Chamber would only return after the deadline for financing.

Thune is ready to bring the same CR adopted by the republicans of the house last week on the ground.

The Republicans of the Senate block the counter-offer of “dirty” democrats while the closing deadline is looming

The chief of the Senate minorities, Chuck Schumer, speaks with journalists outside the Senate Chamber at the American Capitol on September 10, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kent Nishimura / Getty images)

Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Took the probability that the legislators do not return to Capitol Hill until the deadline is directly on them.

“The Republicans want to close,” he said. “A) They refuse to negotiate, and b) they send us back to us for the week before the government stops. So, you know, it seems to be a planned stop. As far as I know, there is no effort, no effort from the Republicans to try to solve this problem.”

Schumer and the Democrats blamed Trump and argue that his insistence on the fact that Thune only needs republican votes was a sign that Democrats should be cut off from the process. Thune will need democratic votes to progress through the threshold of 60 votes in the Senate.

The best Democrat in the Senate hoped that Thune and the Republicans “would now see that the only way to avoid a closure is to negotiate with the Democrats”.

“We say clearly, we sit down. Let’s discover this,” said Schumer. “But the Republicans have now left the city without a sign that they want to avoid a closure in a week. They left the city. Donald Trump is the president of the closure and the Republicans of the Senate follow him on the cliff.”

Thune Democrats “The closing position as” a limit pathological “,” as a disease “

President Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, not illustrated, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 7, 2025 (Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Schumer and the chief of the Hakeem Jeffries minority, DN.Y., also sent a letter to Trump on a meeting on Saturday, where the couple accused that “the Republicans would not be responsible for” a partial closure.

“Consequently, it is now your obligation to meet us directly to reach an agreement to keep the government open and attack the republican health care crisis,” they wrote.

Trump said on Saturday that he would “love to meet them, but I don’t think it would have an impact”.

One day before, he did not seem optimistic about the avoidance of a stop.

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“I think we could very well end up with a closed country for a while,” said Trump.

Thune may have defections in its own ranks to face too. Sense. Rand Paul, r-ky., And Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted against the GOP bill. Only senator John Fetterman, D-P., Crossed the aisle to support him.

Paul’s vote against the bill was not a surprise. However, Murkowski, who is appropriate, argued that she wanted a better bill on the prosecution than that presented by the Republicans and accused the consecutive failures of the two invoices a “messaging exercise”.

“I want to project a message from something that can really make us pass this dead end,” she said. “And therefore my message is a short -term CR which also addresses three bills of past credits that we have already made. We must include them. We must include a short -term correction of premium tax credits.”