{"id":13428,"date":"2025-09-18T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-eyes-friday-votes-on-dueling-funding-bills\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:59:05","slug":"senate-eyes-friday-votes-on-dueling-funding-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-eyes-friday-votes-on-dueling-funding-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate eyes Friday votes on dueling funding bills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senators are expected to vote Friday on competing plans to temporarily fund the government past the end of the month as a partisan standoff ratchets up the chances for a shutdown, according to two people granted anonymity to describe private negotiations.<\/p>\n

The plan, which still had to be finalized as of 6:45 p.m., comes after Republicans huddled behind closed doors for a second time Thursday to talk about the path forward as Congress barrels toward the Sept. 30 midnight deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats obviously want to vote on their [continuing resolution] \u2026 And we want to vote on the House CR<\/a>,\u201d Sen. John Cornyn<\/a> (R-Texas) said, adding that Senate leaders are \u201ctalking to see if they can get there.\u201c<\/p>\n

It would be a shift from just hours ago when Majority Leader John Thune indicated that there wasn’t \u201cmuch sentiment\u201d inside the GOP for giving Democrats a vote on their alternative funding proposal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Democrats are also playing procedural hardball<\/a> over the Senate\u2019s ability to leave town for a scheduled one-week break. Thune, Schumer and all other 98 senators would have to sign off on a deal to hold votes on the competing CR plans tomorrow. The two people said both votes would be held at a 60-vote threshold, meaning both would fail.<\/p>\n

Coming out of the Senate GOP meeting, Thune acknowledged that senators are \u201cworking on locking something in\u201d but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer first floated the idea of holding side-by-side votes Friday. It’s not clear what would happen afterward.<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans have also discussed returning next Thursday to vote on the House CR \u2014 or even staying out of Washington until Sept. 29, less than 48 hours before a shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senators are expected to vote Friday on competing plans to temporarily fund the government past the end of the month as a partisan standoff ratchets up the chances for a shutdown, according to two people granted anonymity to describe private negotiations. The plan, which still had to be finalized as of 6:45 p.m., comes after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}