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Shutdown Looms as Senate Standoff Over ACA Subsidies Blocks Stopgap Funding

The Senate’s 60‑vote threshold gives Democrats leverage over the House stopgap bill.

A partisan standoff over health care and spending is threatening to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, talk with reporters following their meeting with President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the government funding crisis, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Overview

  • Funding is set to lapse at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday with no deal after a White House meeting produced no agreement.
  • Senate Democrats are withholding votes to force an immediate extension of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies and reversals of recent Medicaid cuts, while Republicans insist on a clean bill through Nov. 21.
  • The White House budget office directed agencies to prepare reduction‑in‑force plans, signaling potential permanent layoffs rather than traditional temporary furloughs.
  • CISA projects staffing at roughly 889 of 2,540 employees during a lapse, and the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is set to expire without renewal, potentially curbing public‑private threat sharing.
  • Expected impacts include slowed flights, a halted Labor Department unemployment report, paused SBA lending, and suspended EPA cleanups, with the House not scheduled to reconvene until after funding expires.