Thune throws a wrench in Schumer Shutdown with new funding bill
October 16, 2025 | Chris Donaldson
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is shifting strategy as he looks to end the “Schumer Shutdown” and plans to bring a full-year Pentagon spending bill up for a vote, daring Democrats to oppose it.
With Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) having been able to maintain nearly lockstep resistance with his caucus, repeatedly refusing to do the right thing by funding the federal government, the shutdown has now dragged on for more than two weeks with no end in sight as Democrats continue to gaslight Americans that they are taking a principled stand to defend healthcare.
On Wednesday, Schumer’s gang stuck together to defeat yet another effort to pass the “clean” stopgap funding bill that has already been approved by the House, the ninth time that they defeated the continuing resolution, choosing to engage in purely partisan politics without a care in the world that real Americans are going to suffer.
The Pentagon funding bill passed out of committee earlier this year, 26-3, drawing bipartisan support. And it would fund military paychecks, a longer solution than the “temporary fix” of Trump’s Wednesday order directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “to use for the purpose of pay and allowances any funds appropriated by the Congress that remain available for expenditure in Fiscal Year 2026 to accomplish the scheduled disbursement of military pay and allowances for active duty military personnel.”
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