Senate will not vote once more till Friday on measures to reopen authorities
Senate GOP management plans to proceed teeing up votes on a Home-passed invoice that might fund the federal government till Nov. 21. However the subsequent vote is not going to come till Friday, as senators observe Yom Kippur on Thursday.
Competing measures to fund the federal government failed once more within the Senate on Wednesday, after doing so a day earlier and on an preliminary vote on Sept. 19. The Democratic proposal would fund the federal government till Oct. 31 and lengthen medical insurance tax credit that Democrats have made a prime precedence. No Republicans have supported the measure.
In the meantime, Senate Republicans are searching for to peel off Democratic help for his or her proposal, which handed the Home final month. On Tuesday, the measure picked up help from a Democrat and an unbiased, along with a Democrat who had beforehand backed it, however when the chamber voted once more Wednesday, the result remained unchanged at 55-45.
With 53 Republicans within the Senate, and a 60-vote threshold to advance most laws, help from Democrats is required to fund the federal government.
Trump says GOP should use shutdown to “clear out dead wood”
President Trump wrote on Truth Social late Wednesday: “Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of Dollars can be saved.”
Trump administration officials have signaled in recent days that they may use the shutdown to lay off federal workers or — in the president’s words — “get rid of” Democratic policies.
Last week, the White House Office of Management and Budget told federal agencies to consider layoffs if the government shuts down — an unusual step since the government typically only sends workers home temporarily during lapses in funding. On Wednesday, after the shutdown began, OMB Director Russ Vought told House Republicans on a private call this afternoon that reductions-in-force, or layoffs, will begin within two days, according to two sources familiar with the call.
“When you shut it down, you have to do layoffs,” the president told CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang on Tuesday, hours before the shutdown started.
