Overview
- Senators will work through the weekend for the first time in this shutdown, now in its 39th day, as leaders gauge support for a new bipartisan funding package.
- Republicans are weighing a plan to fund select agencies now and extend the rest of government funding into December or January, with a possible test vote in coming days.
- Democrats have eased earlier demands but insist on either a one‑year extension of ACA premium subsidies or an enforceable path to a vote, a proposal GOP leaders rejected on Friday.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to promise a separate House vote on extending the subsidies, a key obstacle to any Senate agreement moving forward.
- Operational strain is rising, with FAA‑ordered flight reductions and cancellations and delays to SNAP benefits, as President Trump presses the Senate to stay in session and even end the filibuster.