Overview
- The Senate is expected to take a twelfth procedural vote today on the House’s short-term funding bill after 11 failures, with Democrats withholding the needed votes absent an extension of enhanced ACA tax credits and Medicaid fixes.
- President Trump met with Republican senators and said he will not meet Democratic leaders until after the government reopens, as Democrats escalated pressure with an all-night floor protest.
- Shutdown impacts are widening, with about 750,000 federal workers furloughed, the first full paychecks set to be missed this week, and mounting flight delays linked to air traffic controller shortages in several major airports.
- The administration reprogrammed Pentagon funds to pay active-duty troops on Oct. 15, a move criticized by some Republicans for bypassing normal appropriations processes and with uncertainty about covering the next pay period.
- Labor unions sued to stop shutdown-related layoffs after agencies issued RIF notices, and a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily paused many of those terminations while the case proceeds.