Overview

• Both the GOP’s seven-week “clean” continuing resolution and a Democratic alternative failed to reach 60 votes, and the Senate is out until Sept. 29 with a shutdown possible on Oct. 1.
• Republican leaders frame the choice as passing their short-term bill or facing a closure, and John Thune plans to bring the same package back when the Senate returns.
• Democrats demand extending Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, reversing Medicaid cuts, undoing funding freezes, and curbing unilateral rescissions, citing OMB’s $4.9 billion pocket rescissions as a breach of trust.
• To advance a stopgap, Republicans need at least seven Democratic votes; only Sen. John Fetterman backed the GOP bill, and the House-passed measure included limited changes such as added lawmaker security funding.
• Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries requested a meeting with President Trump as both parties escalate a blame campaign over who would be responsible if funding lapses.