Johnson cancels the votes of the Chamber to put pressure on the Democrats of the Senate on the closure of the government

President Mike Johnson, R-La., Sends a sharp signal to the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., while the government closed in 2025 is ready to enter the second week.

The head of the House of Representatives canceled the activities of the House for next week, effectively ordering the legislators to stay in their original districts until October 14 at least on October 14.

Johnson seems to increase the challenges of the Democrats of the Senate, who continue to refuse the GOP plan to finance government agencies in the short -term in favor of the demand for health care that Republicans call unreasonable.

Originally, the Chamber was to return to a regular legislative calendar on October 7. The full room was the last in session on September 19.

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The president of the Mike Johnson room, on the right, criticizes the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, on the left, for refusing to accept a plan led by the GOP to avoid a closure of the government. (Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

Johnson warned earlier Friday that the Chamber would not come back as long as Schumer and the Democrats did not agree with the Bill of the Republicans.

“We have adopted it and was rejected by the Senate,” the chamber president told journalists during a press conference. “Thus, the house will return in session and do its job as soon as Chuck Schumer allows us to reopen the government. It is simple and simple.”

The minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room, DN.Y., told Fox News Digital at his own press conference on Friday that he would call on his Democratic Caucus to DC next week if the Republicans were there or not.

Meanwhile, two sources told Fox News Digital earlier that it was one of the many strategies that the GOP leaders were planning, but waited to see how the Senate’s Friday afternoon vote took place.

It was the fourth time that the Senate Democrats have dismissed the GOP financing plan, a mainly stable extension of the government’s financing levels (FY) 2025. The measure, called continuous resolution (CR), would also include 88 million dollars of security financing for legislators, the White House and the Judicial Branch – which has bipartite support.

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber, DN.Y., chat with journalists after their meeting with President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the government’s financing crisis on September 29, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)

But the Democrats in the House and the Senate were furious while being sidelined in the federal funding talks.

They put pressure on an extension of Obamacare subsidies improved during the COVVI-19 pandemic. These improvements would expire by the end of 2025 without action of the congress.

The Democrats also introduced a counter-proposition for a CR which would maintain the government funded until October 31 while reversing the Gop Cups to Medicaid made in their “a large and beautiful bill”.

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The counter-proposition would also have restored federal funding of NPR and PBS which was reduced by the Trump administration earlier this year.

The Republicans developed this plan as a non-starter full of partisan requests, while stressing that the Democrats voted for a “clean” measure similar to the GOP proposal 13 times during the time of former President Joe Biden.

The cancellation of the votes of the room next week also repels the probability that legislators should vote on the release of the Ministry of Justice even more files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The government has concluded a partial closure after the Congress did not conclude an agreement on federal funding. (Getty Images)

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The representatives Thomas Massie, R-ky., And Ro Khanna, D-Calif., It only required one more person to sign a petition aimed at forcing a vote on Epstein files-a signature they would have obtained if the elected representative Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., Was tightened next week after his special victory.

The leaders of the GOP of the Chamber extended this petition as not unbalanced and superfluous, having already ordered the surveillance committee of the Chamber to investigate the treatment with the DOJ of the Epstein case.

Johnson told Fox News Digital earlier this week that he feared that the bipartite measure had been written so as not to protect sensitive information concerning Epstein victims.

Asked about Johnson’s move during his own press conference on Friday, Schumer told journalists: “Johnson and the House Republicans care more to protect Epstein files than to protect the American people.”