The Senate on Monday voted in opposition to reopening the federal authorities for the eleventh time, pushing the shutdown to the three-week mark with either side at loggerheads and unable to interrupt the deadlock.
The chamber voted 50-43 on the Home-passed persevering with decision to fund the federal government by late November. It wanted 60 votes to go.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine) as soon as once more crossed get together strains and sided with Republicans. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who had beforehand voted in favor of the measure, didn’t vote on Monday.
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) was the lone Senate GOP “no” vote.
The tally got here days after the “No Kings” rallies in Washington and throughout the nation, with Republicans hopeful {that a} deal may come along with these occasions within the rearview mirror.
Nonetheless, there stay valuable few indicators that the stalemate will dissolve within the close to time period, doubtless making certain that it’ll lengthen right into a fourth week and probably into November.
In remarks on the ground Monday, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) mentioned the Democratic place “remains the same.”
“We enter another week of Donald Trump’s government shutdown, and Republicans seem happy not to work, happy not to negotiate, and happy to let health care premiums spike for over 20 million working- and middle-class Americans,” Schumer mentioned.
“Our country is staring down the barrel of a health care catastrophe, and Republicans will spend this week either vacationing or holding pep rallies at the White House,” Schumer mentioned, referring to the Home staying out of session and President Trump’s deliberate luncheon with the Senate GOP. “Authorities employees should work with out getting paid, however Home Republicans receives a commission with out working.”
The dispute has centered on a Democratic insistence for motion to increase the expiring enhanced well being care subsidies as a situation for reopening the federal government, with Republicans unwilling and unable to make any such guarantees.
High Republicans have maintained that no dialog can occur on the tax credit till the shutdown ends.
“It is truly amazing how a program Democrats created and tax credits that they chose to sunset have now become the Republicans’ crisis,” Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-S.D.) mentioned in ground remarks. “Republicans, actually, by no means had something to do with it.”
“Democrats created ObamaCare — alone. They implemented the enhanced tax credits — alone. And they chose a sunset date for those tax credits — alone,” he continued. “Democrats are solely — solely — answerable for the ObamaCare tax credit score cliff, and but they’re making an attempt to pin this catastrophe on Republicans whereas at the exact same time they’re asking Republicans to bail them out.”
“It’s really kind of ironic,” he added.
