{"id":13482,"date":"2025-09-19T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-accuses-dems-of-wanting-a-shutdown-after-failed-senate-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:02:03","slug":"trump-accuses-dems-of-wanting-a-shutdown-after-failed-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-accuses-dems-of-wanting-a-shutdown-after-failed-senate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump accuses Dems of wanting a shutdown after failed Senate vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Friday slammed Senate Democrats for slapping down the House\u2019s stopgap funding measure ahead of a nine-day recess and looming government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office, Trump praised House Republicans for approving a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded through November, calling it \u201can amazing vote.\u201d But that measure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/19\/government-shutdown-standoff-senate-vote-00573168\" target=\"_blank\">failed in the Senate 48-44<\/a>, setting the stage for a shutdown showdown.<\/p>\n<p>The president claimed Senate Democrats, all of whom but one voted against the measure, \u201cwant to shut down the country.\u201d He applauded the single outlier, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, saying \u201che wants to keep the country open.\u201d Two Republicans, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky, also voted against the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Trump bashed Democrats for supporting a laundry list issues \u2014 from trans rights to crime \u2014 and claimed, \u201cif they don\u2019t get everything they want, all these things that they want \u2026 they want to close our government down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also criticized the 58 House Democrats who opposed a resolution passed earlier Friday that would honor Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and White House ally who was shot and killed last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Friday slammed Senate Democrats for slapping down the House\u2019s stopgap funding measure ahead of a nine-day recess and looming government shutdown. Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office, Trump praised House Republicans for approving a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded through November, calling it \u201can amazing vote.\u201d But [&hellip;]<\/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-13482","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\/13482","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=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}