Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D) vows to keep bringing House-passed continuing resolution up for votes while talks fade
By Catholics for Catholics
Neither side will budge.
For the 10th time, senate Democrats blocked Republicans’ efforts to reopen the government and have made sure that the shutdown prolongs until next week.
The reason is because after one final vote series later on Thursday, lawmakers will depart Washington, D.C., for another long weekend after just three short days on the Hill.
But no one is showing any signs of giving in. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are likely to flinch in their profoundly ingrained positions, and talks between both sides, though mostly unofficial exercises, have started to wither.
Nevertheless, not all seems lost. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is unwavering in his quest to continue on the same course of action to keep bringing the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), which would reopen the government until Nov. 21, up for a vote again and again.
Still, some in the Republican party are thinking over a new end date for the CR, that would compel the House, which has been out of session for nearly a month, to return and pass a new one.
Despite Thune and the Republicans committed to their way of putting an end to the shutdown, now on Day 16, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Senate Democratic caucus still want to confer a deal on expiring Obamacare subsidies — and they want President Donald Trump to get directly involved in negotiations.
“We’re willing to have, as I said, conversations about all the other issues that they want to talk about,” Thune said. “But that can’t happen while they are holding the federal government and all these federal employees and our troops and our air traffic controllers and our TSA agents and our border Patrol official’s hostage. Open up the government.”
“Every day that this goes on, the problems are compounded for federal workers and for ordinary Americans,” he continued. “Chuck Schumer may think that every day gets better for them politically, but I can tell you that is not the experience of the American people.”
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