Authorities shutdown stay updates as Senate prepares for ninth vote to fund authorities

Senate Democrats and Republicans stay deadlocked after failing for the eighth time to go a GOP-led measure that might finish the federal government shutdown on Tuesday. CBS Information’ Taurean Small has extra particulars:

Members of the army are set to be paid right this moment on the course of President Trump, whereas different federal employees go with out paychecks till the federal government reopens.

Mr. Trump mentioned in a put up on Fact Social over the weekend that he was directing Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth to “use all accessible funds to get our Troops PAID on October fifteenth.”

“We now have recognized funds to do that, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I cannot enable the Democrats to carry our Navy, and the complete Safety of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their harmful Authorities Shutdown,” Mr. Trump mentioned. 

Round $8 billion in funds from the earlier fiscal 12 months had been recognized to cowl the mid-month paychecks, based on a Pentagon official. Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem additionally mentioned Coast Guard personnel may also obtain paychecks. 

The Oct. 15 deadline for army paychecks had been extensively considered as a doable off-ramp within the shutdown, exerting stress on each side to come back to the desk to keep away from forcing service members to overlook their paychecks. However army pay will proceed to be a difficulty for lawmakers, for the reason that president’s actions solely cowl the Oct. 15 paychecks. Some in Congress have been pushing for standalone laws to pay the army.

Senate Majority Chief John Thune is making an attempt an alternate method to restart some funding, by establishing votes on regular-order appropriations payments. On Tuesday night, he teed up a vote on the full-year Protection Division appropriations invoice, establishing a doable procedural vote for Thursday.

Thune’s transfer marks a departure from the sequence of failed votes on the stopgap measure to fund the federal government into subsequent month. It places stress on Democrats, who’ve mentioned they assist work on the common appropriations course of, although they’re at odds with Republicans over preserve the federal government funded within the brief time period. 

Thune informed reporters final week that he’d be prepared to carry votes on standalone payments to fund components of the federal government, together with the protection invoice, because the deadlock over the shutdown continues.

The Senate is anticipated to vote once more this afternoon on the Home-passed measure to fund the federal government, after the measure fell brief for an eighth time Tuesday night. 

Whereas Republicans have been hoping to choose up new assist from Democrats on the measure, the invoice has failed to achieve any new votes from throughout the aisle since earlier than the shutdown started. There are 53 Republicans within the Senate, however as a result of most laws requires 60 votes to advance within the higher chamber, Republicans want assist from Democrats to reopen the federal government.

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada have supported the measure, together with Sen. Angus King, a Maine impartial who caucuses with Democrats. GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has voted in opposition to the invoice.