Government Shutdown Imminent As Dems Vote Against Funding Bill

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Government Shutdown Imminent As Dems Vote Against Funding Bill

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By Cullen McCue
Sep 30, 2025

Senate Democrats on Tuesday evening voted against a temporary funding measure that would fund the government through late November, making a shutdown increasingly more likely as the midnight deadline approaches.

The vote failed in the upper chamber by a final vote of 55 in favor and 45 against, five votes short of the 60-vote threshold required to pass the stopgap measure. Senators John Fetterman (D-PA) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) joined all Republicans with the exception of Rand Paul (R-KY) in voting for the motion.

Senator Angus King (I-ME), who caucuses with Democrats, also voted in favor.

“It’s a sad day for our nation. Our government shuts down at midnight,” Fetterman wrote in an X post. “I voted AYE to extend ACA tax credits because I support them—but I won’t vote for the chaos of shuttering our government. My vote was our country over my party. Together, we must find a better way forward.”

Cortez Masto said she voted to fund the government because doing otherwise would “hurt Nevada families and hand even more power to this reckless administration.”

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

As long as the GOP can nail this one on the Dems, there is no downside

[libertybele]

As long as the GOP can nail this one on the Dems, there is no downside

 

[Hoodat]

As long as the GOP can nail this one on the Dems, there is no downside

There's already a downside.  The GOP has had eight months to fulfill their campaign promises by passing a budget.  Yet here we are.  All the Democrats have to do now is wait it out.  Eventually, the Republicans will cave and grant them some of the spending they are demanding.

[mystery-ak]

There's already a downside.  The GOP has had eight months to fulfill their campaign promises by passing a budget.  Yet here we are.  All the Democrats have to do now is wait it out.  Eventually, the Republicans will cave and grant them some of the spending they are demanding.

Not only that they adjourned Congress for almost 6 weeks starting in Aug...they should have stayed in DC and worked on this instead of going on *vacation*.

[DB]

Dems have called the bet, will Trump play the cards he claimed to have?

[verga]

Dems have called the bet, will Trump play the cards he claimed to have?

At this point I don't see how he has a choice.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

There's already a downside.  The GOP has had eight months to fulfill their campaign promises by passing a budget.  Yet here we are.  All the Democrats have to do now is wait it out.  Eventually, the Republicans will cave and grant them some of the spending they are demanding.

And while we wait, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are losing their jobs, and agencies are being shut down.

That is real money that will not be spent, while we all know a budget is not real at all for the past 3 decades.

[Bigun]

And while we wait, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are losing their jobs, and agencies are being shut down.

That is real money that will not be spent, while we all know a budget is not real at all for the past 3 decades.

LOL! Government accounting! So much crap has been taken OFF BUDGET very few can figure out what the true price tag is. They don't even speak the same language we do! If my boss CUTS my salary 10% I will receive 10% less in my pay envelopes but GOVERNMENT accountants tell us that if we reduce the rate of growth in government by 10% we have CUT government when the fact is they will still get more this year than they did last year. It's ALL BS!

[bilo]

There's already a downside.  The GOP has had eight months to fulfill their campaign promises by passing a budget.  Yet here we are.  All the Democrats have to do now is wait it out.  Eventually, the Republicans will cave and grant them some of the spending they are demanding.

The GOP leadership doesn't want to pass a budget. The largest amount of campaign donations flow through the leadership because they negotiate the omnibus bill that has all the special perks in it, rather than going through the appropriations process that would then mean the committees and House itself would determine where the money is going. The leadership then has a greater control over who gets funding for their campaigns and can keep "upstarts" out.

[bilo]

Dems have called the bet, will Trump play the cards he claimed to have?

Yes!

[Lando Lincoln]

LOL! Government accounting! So much crap has been taken OFF BUDGET very few can figure out what the true price tag is. They don't even speak the same language we do! If my boss CUTS my salary 10% I will receive 10% less in my pay envelopes but GOVERNMENT accountants tell us that if we reduce the rate of growth in government by 10% we have CUT government when the fact is they will still get more this year than they did last year. It's ALL BS!

Exactly right. It is all “Watch the pea” rhetoric. None of the accounting can be followed.

[Kamaji]

So how’s the shutdown going?