Overview
- Senate leaders kept the chamber in session for rare weekend negotiations on a bipartisan package to fund select agencies and extend remaining funding into December or January.
- Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, formally offered to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire this year.
- A Republican bill to resume pay for federal employees failed 53–43, with three Democrats backing it, underscoring the filibuster hurdle and the parties’ stalemate.
- Operational fallout intensified as the FAA ordered flight reductions at major airports, airlines canceled hundreds of flights, and SNAP benefits faced delays despite a federal court order the White House has appealed.
- President Donald Trump urged senators to stay in session and floated ending the filibuster, later proposing to redirect insurer subsidies into direct payments to individuals.