Senate to Vote Again on Bills to End Shutdown: BGOV Budget

Oct. 1, 2025, 10:04 AM UTC

Shutdown Begins with Dueling Senate Votes

Senators will ring in Day One of a government shutdown by voting a third time on stopgap spending bills that have previously failed, as negotiators test whether their opponents will break.

Cracks have started to emerge among Senate Democrats. A House-passed Republicans stopgap measure failed in the Senate yesterday, 55-45, falling short of the necessary 60 votes. But three Democratic caucus members, Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Angus King (I-Maine) voted for the GOP-proposed stopgap last night. Fetterman was the only Democrat to support the measure on its first vote. ...

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