House Republicans pass stopgap spending bill, set up shutdown fight with Senate

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 House Republicans pass stopgap spending bill, set up shutdown fight with Senate
by Emily Brooks and Mike Lillis - 09/19/25 10:48 AM ET

House Republicans approved a short-term government spending package Friday to avert a shutdown at month’s end, sending the bill to the Senate and setting up a clash with upper-chamber Democrats vowing to sink the measure.

The legislation was crafted by Republicans, without Democratic input, and that dynamic was reflected in the lopsided 217-212 vote, which fell largely along partisan lines.

Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Victoria Spartz (Ind.), opposed the legislation, to protest deficit spending levels they deem too high, while one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden (Maine), crossed the aisle to support the bill.

The Senate is scheduled to vote on the House GOP-passed stopgap and a competing measure crafted by Senate Democrats on Friday afternoon. Both are expected to fail, and both chambers are vowing to leave Washington for a weeklong holiday break, leaving little time to reach a resolution to prevent a shutdown on Oct. 1.

The GOP stopgap passed Friday, dubbed a “clean” continuing resolution (CR) by Republicans, extends government funding at current levels through Nov. 21, with some other bipartisan measures attached.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5512199-house-republicans-stopgap-spending-bill-shutdown/

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Bradley Jaye 19 Sep 2025





Senate Democrats defeated a House-passed bill to fund the government Friday, propelling the nation toward a government shutdown.

The minority Democrats largely banded together to defeat the bill, 44 to 48, with only Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) joining Republicans. Sixty votes were needed.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who routinely votes against government funding bills, voted with Democrats, as did Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a moderate who often sides with Democrats.

Eight Republicans did not vote – although their votes in favor of the bill would have left the bill shy of the necessary 60.

Just hours earlier on Friday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to prevent a government shutdown for another seven weeks with only one Democrat voting supporting the critical bill.

That partisanship was a sign of things to come in the Senate.

The Senate first voted on a Democrat alternative to the House-passed CR that was a non-starter for Republican majorities in the House and the Senate as well as the Republican White House. Democrats demanded that Republicans permanently extend Obamacare enhanced premium subsidies, undo much of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and tie the Trump administration’s hands from making additional spending cuts authorized by the Constitution and law.

That bill, which also needed 60 votes, failed 47 to 45, with many Republican senators not even making their way to the Senate floor for the fait accompli.

The second vote on the House-passed CR was more significant, as its passage would ensure an end to the current shutdown scare and give appropriators more time for a bipartisan deal by November 21.

Democrats said no thanks, gambling that their tough-talking, burn-it-all-down approach would energize their radical base in greater measure than it would turn off independents and moderates who want to keep the government’s lights on.

The Senate is expected to recess until September 29, when Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is likely to give Democrats a second chance to responsibly fund the government after stewing for a week – and campaigning on a vote they brand as resistance to Trump.

Republicans in the House and Senate are determined to play their strong hand.

The Office of House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), responsible for scheduling the House floor, advised members that the House is no longer expected to be in session on September 29 and 30.

“If Senate Democrats insist on a Schumer Shutdown of the federal government, Members should be prepared to return to DC,” an advisory read.

Absent a successful funding bill being passed by Congress, the government will shut down on October 1

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/19/democrats-kill-spending-bill-as-senate-spirals-toward-shutdown/

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Exclusive — John Thune: ‘Chuck Schumer Has Made It Very Clear He Wants a Shutdown’

Matthew Boyle19 Sep 2025Washington, DC
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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Breitbart News exclusively that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is careening the nation towards a government shutdown, and labeled the impending impasse a “Schumer Shutdown.”

“Chuck Schumer has made it very clear that he wants a shutdown, and I think he wants that to appease his far left activists and despite, as you pointed out, him speaking on the dangers of a shutdown no less than just six months ago,” Thune told Breitbart News this week. “He’s got a long history of talking about how terrible it is when the government shuts down. We’ve got to avoid it, and we need to pass clean spending bills, and we’re offering that up to him, but this if this ends up in a shutdown it will be a Schumer shutdown make no mistake about it.”

“What we are trying to do here, what Mike Johnson and the House Republicans are trying to do, is to fund the government into November to give us time to actually move on the individual appropriations bills to fund the government, which is something under Schumer’s leadership the Senate did not do because everything was decided behind closed doors in his office,” Thune explained.

“So you know, we’re going to need a short term CR to keep the government funded… we will continue in our effort to process individual appropriations bills but we’re going to need a little bit of a stop-gap measure in order to do that. Right now he’s signaling that, even though it’s going to be a clean bill — something he’s advocated for in the past — that he intends to shut the government down over it,” the Majority Leader said. On the prospect of passing a spending bill, he said, “So we’ll see if he follows through. Hopefully, there are some Democrats on his side of the aisle who see that as a really bad idea and irrespective of what he does will vote to keep the government open. But we’re going to know that here pretty soon.”

To pass the government funding plan that would keep the government open until mid-November — by which time Republicans on both sides of Capitol Hill hope to have their twelve Appropriations bills passed — they would need to pass a continuing resolution (CR) out of both chambers of Congress. Republicans can pass this with a simple majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, but Senate rules require a 60-vote threshold to pass the plan. That means at least seven Democrats, but probably more, would need to join Republicans to fund the government and keep it open.

Thune told Breitbart News that despite Schumer’s insistence on steering the nation toward a shutdown, he is hopeful other Democrats from red or purple states like Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), or retiring Democrats like Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), or even Dick Durbin (D-IL), despite his current position in Schumer’s leadership operation, might join with Republicans to vote against a government shutdown.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/19/exclusive-john-thune-chuck-schumer-has-made-it-very-clear-he-wants-a-shutdown/

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Chuck will have to own the shutdown.  He will probably be primaried anyway.