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Senate Moves to Draft New Stopgap as Thune Sees Possible Vote This Week

The Senate plans to replace the House’s Nov. 21 funding bill with a longer extension to create breathing room for full-year appropriations.

Dawn brightens the sky over the U.S. Capitol dome, seen from an empty meeting room during the continuing partial federal government shutdown in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters following a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans on day 28 of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Overview

  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he is optimistic the chamber could vote to reopen the government by week’s end, cautioning that visible progress is needed by midweek.
  • Thune declared the Nov. 21 deadline in the House-passed continuing resolution “lost” and signaled a new funding bill likely stretching into December or January.
  • Any Senate bill that resets the date would require the House to reconvene for its first vote since Sept. 19 to approve the revised measure.
  • Democrats continue to link reopening to action on extending Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, the White House insists talks come only after a restart, and bipartisan rank-and-file discussions are exploring possible paths including a House quartet’s subsidy framework.
  • On day 34, the shutdown is nearing the 35-day record, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid, FAA facilities reporting staffing-driven slowdowns, SNAP facing partial funding, and the 60-vote Senate threshold still in place despite the president’s call to scrap the filibuster that Thune says lacks support.