{"id":169806,"date":"2025-10-29T01:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/shutdown-stretches-into-28th-day-as-senate-again-fails-to-pass-spending-legislation-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:46:01","slug":"shutdown-stretches-into-28th-day-as-senate-again-fails-to-pass-spending-legislation-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/shutdown-stretches-into-28th-day-as-senate-again-fails-to-pass-spending-legislation-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown stretches into 28th day as Senate again fails to pass spending legislation – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

As funding for food aid program is about to be exhausted, Congress fails for 13th time to advance Republican bill
Air traffic controllers receive $0 paychecks as government shutdown stretches<\/a>
The US government shutdown<\/a> stretched into its 28th day with no resolution in sight on Tuesday, as the Senate<\/a> remained deadlocked over spending legislation even as a crucial food aid program<\/a> teeters on the brink of exhausting its funding.
For the 13th time, Senate Democrats<\/a> blocked a Republican<\/a>-backed bill that would have funded federal agencies through 21 November. The minority party has refused to provide the necessary support for the bill to clear the 60-vote threshold for advancement in the Senate because it does not include funding for healthcare programs, or curbs on Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s cuts to congressionally approved funding.
The quagmire continued even after the president of the largest federal workers union called on Congress<\/a> to pass the Republican proposal, citing the economic pain caused to government workers.
\u201cBoth political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight. Today I\u2019m making mine: it\u2019s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship. Put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay \u2013 today,\u201d Everett Kelley<\/a>, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said in a statement released on Monday.
But the top Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, signaled no change in his party\u2019s strategy of holding out for concession from the Republicans<\/a>, citing the imminent rise of premiums for Affordable Care Act health plans. Though tax credits that lower their costs expire at the end of the year, many enrollees in the plans have received notices of steep premium increases ahead of Saturday\u2019s beginning of the open enrollment period.
\u201cFamilies are going to be in panic this weekend all across America, millions of them. How are they going to pay this bill? How are they going to live without healthcare? It\u2019s tragic, and of course, it didn\u2019t have to be, but Republicans are doing nothing,\u201d Schumer told reporters at the US Capitol.
The Republican Senate majority leader, John Thune, seized on the AFGE\u2019s statement to argue that Democrats<\/a> were being irresponsible for refusing to back the bill, which Republicans in the House of Representatives approved on a near party line vote last month before the speaker, Mike Johnson, ordered the chamber into a recess that has yet to end.
\u201cIt\u2019s not very often that I get a chance to say this, but I agree with the AFGE,\u201d Thune said.
He reiterated that he would negotiate with Democrats over the expiring tax credits, but not with \u201ca gun to our heads\u201d.
\u201cI sincerely hope, in the best interest of every American who is impacted by this shutdown, and particularly those who are going to be really adversely impacted come this weekend, that the enough Democrats will come to their senses and deliver the five votes that are necessary to get this bill on the president\u2019s desk,\u201d Thune said, adding that he planned to hold further votes on the spending legislation.
Both parties traded blame for the imminent expiration of funding<\/a> for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), also known as food stamps. The Department of Agriculture has announced that it does not have the money to continue providing the benefit after 1 November, though on Tuesday, more than two dozen states sued the Trump administration<\/a>, arguing that funds are available for Snap benefits to continue.
North Dakota senator Kevin Cramer said Democrats should either support a proposal from fellow Republican senator Josh Hawley to allow Snap to continue during the shutdown, \u201cor they could just reopen the damn government, which is what they should be doing and should have been doing for the last month\u201d.
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South Dakota senator Mike Rounds said the tax credits should be addressed by bipartisan action, but criticized the affordability of Affordable Care Act health plans. \u201cThe Obamacare product itself is fatally flawed. It continues to create a death spiral coming down with regard to the increasing costs. There are people out there, real people, that are going to get hurt because Obamacare is not working,\u201d he said.
In an interview, Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren<\/a> signaled no change in the party\u2019s strategy for the shutdown, which began<\/a> at the start of the month after Congress failed to pass legislation to continue funding that expired at the end of September.
\u201cMillions of people across this country are receiving their health insurance premium notices, and telling Democrats and Republicans, lower those costs,\u201d Warren said. \u201cDemocrats are in there fighting to lower healthcare costs for millions of Americans. Donald Trump<\/a> would rather shut down the government than help out these families.\u201d
Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine who has repeatedly broken with Trump as she faces what is expected to be a tough re-election contest next year, said she did not buy that the agriculture department lacked funding to continue Snap, but noted the money it had on hand was not enough to cover the program\u2019s costs.
However, Collins expressed concerns about the readiness<\/a> of air traffic controllers, who did not receive a fully paycheck on Tuesday due to the shutdown. She noted that on two recent flights to Ronald Reagan Washington National airport, her plane had to divert at the last second.
\u201cI can\u2019t help but think that reflects the strain on air traffic controllers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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