Shutdown Pressure Points Increase This Week: Congress Tracker

Oct. 27, 2025, 10:43 AM UTC

It’s another shutdown week with the Senate back in town and the House remaining away.

A series of converging deadlines this week may increase pressure on lawmakers as the government shutdown is set to enter its fifth week on Wednesday.

Senators are set to play the same blame game they have for weeks.

“I can’t explain the level of dysfunction on their side right now,” Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters at the end of last week.

Democrats for their part were unified in opposing reopening the government without a deal to renew expiring subsidies under the Affordable Care ...

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