The Democrats of the Senate block the GOP financing bill for the 3rd time in the middle of the federal closure

Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have clined less than 24 hours after a closure of the government, as an attempt to adopt an extension of the government’s financing again failed on Wednesday.

Although Republican leaders point out that more democrats would cross the aisle, the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., and his caucus blocked the continuous resolution of the GOP (CR) for the third time with a vote of 53-45.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., plans to put the same bill on the soil still and still in order to put pressure on the Democrats of the Senate. The Senate is expected to leave the city on Thursday to observe Yom Kippour but will come back on Friday to continue to vote. In order to advance the bill, Thune needs at least 60 votes to spend through the Senate’s filibustier.

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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., and his caucus blocked the GOP CR for the third time. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

There were glimmer of hope on Tuesday that more democrats would break the ranks and vote for the bill when Catherine Cortez Masto, D-NEV., And Angus King, I-Maine, joined Senator John Fetterman, d-pa., To vote for the bill.

However, this trio remained the only member of the Democratic Caucus who crossed the aisle on Wednesday.

“We are only one vote by appeal to the Senate at the end of the closure,” said Thune. “We need a handful of democrats to join the Republicans to reopen the government. And once we do it, so we can talk about the questions that Democrats are raising. But we are not going to engage in bipartite discussions while the Democrats hold the hostages of the federal government to their partisan requests.”

The ranks of the GOP were also held except for Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky, who again voted against the bill.

Dems sacrificed the American people, “says Thune as barrels of the government towards the midnight closure

The head of the majority in the Senate, John Thune, speaks to the media next to Vice-President JD Vance and the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber while President Donald Trump meets the best leaders of the Congress before the deadline for the closing of September 30 at the White House in Washington on September 29, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Schumer and the Democrats of the Senate always seem firmly rooted in their position that they want an extension to expire the Obamacare tax credits and be reduced in negotiations on the short -term financing bill.

Schumer declared on the Senate soil before the vote that the Democrats were not ready to move and blame the closure of the Republicans.

“Democrats want to avoid this crisis, but the Republicans have tried to intimidate us, and it is clear that they cannot,” he said. “They don’t have the votes.”

The Republicans of Congress and the White House accused the Democrats of having closed the government in order to give illegal immigrants health care, a point that Schumer rejected.

“It’s a fucking lie,” he said. “Not $ 1 of Medicare, Medicaid or (Obamacare) is authorized to go to undocumented immigrants, not to a dollar. So why do they continue to say that? This seems to be their theme, because they are afraid of talking about the real problem. It is a typical republican response: to have a diversion, to try to scare people emotionally.”

Senator Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, took a tour of Schumer and the blockade of Democrats as “roughly irresponsible”.

“It reminds me of my 4-year-old granddaughter when she gets angry, when she kicks the sand and leaves the sandbox, and they cannot go,” he said. “It’s ridiculous.”

Their own counter-proposition was also blocked, once again, on Wednesday, which included a permanent extension of credits, a repeal of the health title in the “Big, Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump, and a financing poster canceled for NPR and PBS.

The White House declares an imminent government closure after the Senate does not reach funding for the invoice

President Donald Trump went to Air Force One at Morristown Airport on September 14, 2025 in Morristown, New Jersey. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

But the knot of their wishes list focuses on Obamacare tax credits. They do not express before the end of this year, but the Democrats have warned that the Americans who are registered in the health care program and count on the subsidies would see their rates upgraded an average of 114% if the Congress did not act.

Senator Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, argued that the position of the Democrats was not a “kind of cooked request”.

“The reason we are trying to act on health care is now that people ‘bonuses are increasing next week,” he said.

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Meanwhile, Trump warned before the vote that his administration and the management and budget office, led by the director Russ Vought, could do things “which are irreversible”, such as mass layoffs and democrats’ reduction programs.

Vought and the OMB sent a note last week which ordered the agencies to implement mass layoffs beyond the typical content that occurs during a closure. And the Congressional Budget Office has planned that around 750,000 employees would be on leave per day at the cost of around $ 400 million in daily salary.