Shutdown Spotlight Falls on Dealmaker Schumer: Congress Tracker

Sept. 30, 2025, 10:47 AM UTC

For Senate Democrats, today is the day.

After months of softening the ground with political messages, today they’ll decide if they’re going to block a short-term funding bill and tip the federal government into a shutdown at midnight or cave to President Donald Trump.

Monday’s meeting between Trump and top congressional leaders pointed in one direction: shutdown.

Unless there’s a sudden reversal to pass a stopgap measure, government funding will expire at midnight and a shutdown will take hold.

The brightest spotlight in Congress will fall on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a longtime dealmaker who has ...

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