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Weekend Session Gets Off To Slow Start In Senate As Lawmakers Look For A Way Out Of Shutdown
Trump wants Republicans to end the shutdown quickly and scrap the filibuster, which requires 60 Senate votes for most legislation, so they can bypass Democrats altogether. Vice President JD Vance, a former Ohio senator, endorsed the idea in an online post Saturday, saying Republicans who want to keep the filibuster are “wrong.”
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Will the government reopen today? When does the Senate vote today on shutdown 2025? Update
The second-longest government shutdown in history continues with another Sente vote today, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, on a GOP-backed bill called the Shutdown Fairness Act that would pay federal workers, military members and contractors who continue to work ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Saturday that senators will remain in session until a deal is unlocked to reopen the government as the shutdown reached Day 39 with
The Senate chaplain appealed directly to the Almighty in his prayer to open the session Monday, asking God to "remind our lawmakers" of the consequences of continuing the government shutdown.