{"id":15392,"date":"2025-11-07T18:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-eye-vote-on-federal-worker-pay\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:46:59","slug":"senate-republicans-eye-vote-on-federal-worker-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-eye-vote-on-federal-worker-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans eye vote on federal worker pay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Republicans are eyeing a Friday vote on legislation that would pay some federal employees and active-duty troops amid the record-setting government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> said there was a \u201cgood possibility\u201d that he would tee up a vote on the legislation from Sen. Ron Johnson<\/a> (R-Wis.).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to vote to pay federal workers,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n

The Senate tried to bring up Johnson\u2019s bill last month, but it was blocked by Democrats<\/a>. Republicans continue to discuss another potential vote on the House-approved continuing resolution<\/a>, which Thune wants to use as a vehicle for an eventual larger funding deal.<\/p>\n

The possible Friday vote comes as pain from the shutdown mounts, including a cascade of new flight cancellations and airport delays.<\/p>\n

Thune added that he expects the Senate to stay in session this weekend, a step he\u2019s avoided for the first five weeks of the shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to proceed forward in hopes at some point that we’ll get a chance to vote \u2014 whether that’s today or tomorrow \u2014 on a package of bills that we have been negotiating with Democrats,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n

Some senators have privately grumbled about staying through the weekend without firm hopes for an agreement among the bipartisan group of senators who have been negotiating a way out of the shutdown.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of people that have got other plans in terms of things they need to do,” said Sen. Mike Rounds<\/a> (R-S.D.). \u201cIf they’re going to come here and sit, they’re not going to be very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Republicans are eyeing a Friday vote on legislation that would pay some federal employees and active-duty troops amid the record-setting government shutdown. Majority Leader John Thune said there was a \u201cgood possibility\u201d that he would tee up a vote on the legislation from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). \u201cWe\u2019re going to vote to pay federal […]<\/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-15392","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\/15392","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=15392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}