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Senate Blocks GOP Funding Bill for 10th Time as Shutdown Reaches Day 16

Democrats insist any stopgap include an extension of Affordable Care Act premium credits.

Overview

  • Republicans failed again to advance the House-passed continuing resolution, guaranteeing the partial shutdown continues into next week as senators depart for the weekend.
  • Senate GOP leaders set a separate vote to advance a full-year Pentagon appropriations bill that also requires 60 votes, testing Democratic willingness to fund defense during the impasse.
  • Majority Leader John Thune offered Democrats a guaranteed vote by a date certain on extending ACA tax credits without promising passage, an assurance progressives including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders rejected.
  • U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order blocking the administration’s planned layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown.
  • The White House moved to pay active-duty troops and the FBI said agents will be paid, while more than 750,000 federal employees remain furloughed and polls show the blame gap narrowing.