Live updates: Senate reject measures to end shutdown; House GOP to extend recess through Oct. 13
Senate Democrats and Republicans on Friday failed to pass competing bills to fund the government, extending the shutdown into next week. The measures were expected to fail.
Shortly after the failed votes, the House GOP said it would extend its recess through Oct. 13, a move to put pressure on Senate Democrats.
Senate Democrats have said the House GOP should be at the Capitol to negotiate a new deal, so the decision increases the likelihood the shutdown will last until the middle of Octoberr.
A longer shutdown could start weighing down the economy. Democrats are banking on Republicans feeling pressure to avoid that, leading them to cut a deal.
Earlier Friday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed the press, sharing that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is coordinating with Cabinet secretaries about possible firings, an action that pushes the administration into uncharted legal territory.
Trump met with OMB chief Russ Vought to discuss the layoffs on Thursday.
“Their discussions continue between the Office of Management and Budget and Cabinet agencies across the board, and they are actively identifying where these cuts and these layoffs as the government shutdown hopefully does not continue,” Leavitt said.
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The latest casualty of the shutdown is the September jobs report, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics has said will be delayed because its personnel are furloughed.
Follow along here all day for updates.
Senate tees up next CR votes for Monday
The Senate will try again on Monday evening to break the budget impasse that started a government shutdown.
As it adjourned for the weekend, the Senate calendar was updated to include procedural votes starting at 5:30 p.m., first on the Democrat-written continuing resolution, followed by the House-passed one.
House cancels votes next week
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) officially canceled votes in the House next week as the shutdown continues and Republicans aim to pressure Senate Democrats into accepting a “clean” GOP-crafted short-term stopgap.
A notice designating the week as a district work period was read in a pro for a session on the House floor on Friday afternoon.
Epstein victims will return to Capitol Hill next week
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein will return to Capitol Hill next week, when they will be hosted by a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing the Trump administration to release the government’s files on the late sex offender.
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had staged a public event with Epstein survivors early last month as part of their effort to drum up support for a discharge petition designed to force the administration to release those secret documents.
Bill to reopen government fails in Senate after bipartisan talks fall short
Senate Democrats voted for the fourth time Friday to defeat a House-passed bill that would fund the government through Nov. 21 and end the three-day-old government shutdown that has left tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) failed to pick up any additional Democratic votes for the clean, seven-week funding measure, leaving the tally at 54-44. It needed 60 votes to pass.
Three members of the Democratic caucus voted to advance the bill: Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
Cortez Masto, Fetterman and King voted twice previously for the bill, saying they wanted to avoid a shutdown that would hurt constituents and give more power to Trump to cut agencies and fire federal employees.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only Republican vote against it.
Bill to reopen government fails in Senate after bipartisan talks fall short
Senate Democrats voted for the fourth time Friday to defeat a House-passed bill that would fund the government through Nov. 21 and end the three-day-old government shutdown that has left tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) failed to pick up any additional Democratic votes for the clean, seven-week funding measure, leaving the tally at 54-44. It needed 60 votes to pass.
Republicans have promised to have a discussion with Democrats about extending enhanced health care premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are due to expire at the end of the year, though Thune said he could not make any commitments. Democrats have demanded an extension be attached to the short-term funding bill.
Senate Republicans have also tried to sweeten a potential deal with Democrats by promising to move the regular appropriations bills if the government reopens, which would give Democrats a chance to pursue their funding priorities.
A person familiar with the negotiations between Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Appropriations Committee said that GOP senators thought they were “very close” Thursday evening to a bipartisan agreement that would allow eight or nine Democrats to vote for the House-passed continuing resolution to reopen government.
A GOP senator familiar with the talks, however, said the momentum toward a deal died suddenly on Friday as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) stepped in to urge Democratic colleagues to hold out against the House-passed stopgap funding measure until Republicans agree to significant concessions on extending the health premium tax credits.
House GOP considers canceling more votes if shutdown continues
House Republican leaders are considering staying out of town and canceling previously scheduled votes next week if the government shutdown continues, sources tell The Hill.
The move, which is not yet finalized, is intended to keep pressure on Senate Democrats to vote for the “clean,” GOP-crafted stopgap to keep the government open for another seven weeks. Democrats have rejected that bill as they make demands on extending health care subsidies and other issues.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) alluded to the plan in a press conference Friday morning, ahead of a Senate re-vote on the House continuing resolution (CR).
“The House will come back into session and do its work as soon as Chuck Schumer allows us to reopen the government,” Johnson said.
Treasury shares draft of commemorative Trump coin for America 250 celebration
The Treasury Department on Friday shared draft images of a commemorative $1 coin bearing the image of President Trump to be circulated to mark 250 years since the country’s founding.
U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach shared images of the draft coin on his X account. One side of the coin features a profile of Trump’s face, the words “Liberty” and “In God We Trust,” and the years 1776 and 2026.
The other side of the coin features an image of Trump in front of an American flag with his fist raised and the words “Fight, Fight, Fight,” which Trump shouted after he was grazed by a bullet during a July 2024 campaign rally.
Democrat CR fails
The Democratic continuing resolution to end the government shutdown failed Thursday afternoon in a 46-52 vote.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jerry Moran (R-Ks.) did not vote.
Greene: Senate Republicans ‘playing games’ on shutdown
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted Senate Republicans for “playing games” instead of using the “nuclear option” to reopen the government, three days after funding lapsed.
“If Republican Senators wanted to pass the CR [continuing resolution] and reopen the government they could, by using the nuclear option to override the 60 vote rule and pass the CR with a simple majority vote,” Greene wrote on X.
Senate kicks off votes on competing government funding bills
The Senate has begun voting on the first of two bills to fund the government.
The first bill is the Democratic proposal to fund the government through the end of October and enact a number of health care provisions.
The chamber will then vote on the “clean” House-passed bill to fund the government through Nov. 21.
It is the fourth time the Senate has voted on the pair of bills, and both votes are expected to fail.
White House reviewing possible funding cuts for Portland amid immigration protests
President Trump has directed aides to review aid for Portland, Ore., that could be cut amid immigration protests in the city, the White House said Friday.
“He has directed his team here at the White House to begin reviewing aid that can be potentially be cut in Portland. We will not fund states that allow anarchy,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing.
Trump has directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland and any ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other left-wing domestic terrorists,” Leavitt added.
Venezuela: 5 US fighters flying near its coast a national security threat
The Venezuelan government on Thursday denounced the “illegal incursion” of five American fighter jets into the country’s coastal airspace, alleging “a pattern of harassment” by the U.S. government.
The news came a day before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. military killed four “narco-terrorists” off the coast of Venezuela in the latest in a series of U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Jeffries gives remarks on Day 3 of shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is speaking to reporters Friday afternoon as the Senate holds another round of votes on the stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government.
His remarks come as Republicans and Democrats continue the blame game over who is responsible for the lapse in funding.
Smithsonian museums to close on Oct. 12 if shutdown persists
The Smithsonian Institution should be able to remain open for another week but will close should the government shutdown persist beyond next Saturday.
Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo are open today and will remain open through our scheduled closing time on Saturday, Oct. 11,” the institution wrote in a post on the social platform X.
“If the government shutdown continues past Oct. 11, Smithsonian locations will be closed beginning on Sunday, Oct. 12,” it added.
The collection of museums previously stated, before government funding lapsed, that its entities would stay open until Oct. 6.
Read more here.
Vought coordinating with Cabinet agencies on staffing cuts
The White House did not indicate any final decisions had been made about which agencies would be targeted for layoffs amid a government shutdown, suggesting discussions were ongoing.
Leavitt said budget director Russell Vought was talking with Cabinet secretaries following a meeting with President Trump on Thursday.
“Their discussions continue between the Office of Management and Budget and Cabinet agencies across the board and they are actively identifying where these cuts and these layoffs as the government shutdown hopefully does not continue,” Leavitt said.
Most Trump supporters back ObamaCare subsidies’ extension: Survey
A survey has found that a majority of Republicans and Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters back the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits at the center of the government shutdown fight.
The poll, released Friday and conducted by the nonpartisan health policy research organization KFF, indicates that 59 percent of Republicans and 57 percent of supporters of the MAGA movement favor extending the tax credits.
Leavitt: 'No tangible plan' for ICE at Super Bowl
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters there was “no tangible plan” to deploy Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) officers to the Super Bowl in February after the NFL announced Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny would be the halftime performer.
“As far as ICE being at the Super Bowl, as far as I’m aware there’s no tangible plan for that in store right now,” Leavitt said. “However of course this administration is always going to arrest and deport illegal immigrants when we find them.”
Corey Lewandowski, an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, earlier this week had said ICE agents would be present at the Super Bowl.
Bad Bunny endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
White House reviewing potential funding cuts for Portland
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration is reviewing what aid “can potentially be cut in Portland” amid protests in Oregon’s biggest city over immigration enforcement.
Protests broke out near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where officials said a conservative influencer was arrested amid the chaos.
“If the mayor of Portland were to call him right now and say, ‘Mr. President, please help us,’ I am sure the president would be willing to do that,” Leavitt said. “He is genuinely serious about wanting to restore order in America’s cities. But it’s become apparent that the local and elected officials in Oregon do not feel the same.”
Gallego demands transparency in Trump's deal with Pfizer
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is raising concerns over the lack of details given about President Trump’s “most favored nation” (MFN) pricing deal he announced with Pfizer this week, calling on the company’s CEO to explain how it plans to execute the agreement.
In a letter to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, provided to The Hill, Gallego asked for clarity in his agreement with the Trump administration.
Bourla announced Tuesday at the White House that his company would be complying with all four of Trump’s demands written out in his MFN executive order, signed in May.
Read more here.
GOP senators torn over luxury fundraising weekend during shutdown
The Senate will not be holding votes this weekend on reopening the government as was initially expected, as some Republican senators will be attending a high-dollar fundraising retreat for the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Georgia’s Sea Island.
The timing of the fundraising committee’s fall meeting is awkward for senators, because Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has urged his GOP colleagues not to hold fundraisers during the shutdown because it could open them to political attacks.
The Senate Republicans’ weekend at the luxurious Sea Island Resort is a big draw for Republican donors and lobbyists in part because it gives them face time with important GOP policymakers.
This year, however, some Republican senators are nervous about the political optics of hanging out at a posh resort while the government is shut down, and some GOP lawmakers are thinking about changing their plans to skip it entirely, according to sources familiar with the behind-the-scenes hand-wringing.
Hegseth says 4 killed in latest strike on ‘narco-trafficking vessel’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military killed four alleged “narcoterrorists” on a boat allegedly carrying narcotics off the coast of Venezuela on Friday morning, the latest strike on “narco-trafficking” vessels in the Caribbean Sea.
Hegseth said a “kinetic” strike took out a boat affiliated with a designated terrorist organization in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility.
No U.S. forces were injured during the operation.
Trump says he's reversed some New York funding cuts
President Trump posted on Truth Social that he had reversed cuts made to homeland security and counterterrorism for New York City and the state.
It was not immediately clear which funds Trump was referring to. New York filed a lawsuit Tuesday over a nearly $34 million federal grant for transit security being cut off. The lawsuit alleges the Trump administration froze the funding because the state would not devote its law enforcement resources to immigration enforcement.
The administration also announced Wednesday it was freezing $18 billion in federal funding for infrastructure projects in New York City, citing concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Eisenhower Presidential Library director resigns after dispute with Trump over sword gift for King Charles
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library‘s former president resigned Monday for refusing to give a sword to President Trump as a gift to King Charles III during his recent trip overseas.
Career historian Todd Arrington told CBS News in an interview on Thursday that he was pressured out of the position by the Trump administration and told to “Resign or be fired.”
Thune says he make can't promises on ObamaCare subsidies to open government
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said he cannot make any deals or promises on extending the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits that expire at the end of the year as a way to get Democrats to vote to reopen the government.
“There are discussions going on with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but at some point they have to take yes for an answer,” Thune said in a press conference Friday. “The things that people want, and I don’t disagree with this at all, is a normal appropriations process, putting bills on the floor … so we can actually fund the government the old-fashioned way, and I’m all for that, and we made that very clear to them.”
“We can’t make commitments or promises on the COVID subsidies, because that’s not something that we can guarantee that there are the votes there to do,” Thune said. “What I said is, I’m hoping to have a conversation with our Democrat colleagues about how to address that issue. … But that can’t happen while the government is shut down.”
House Democrat who confronted Johnson: Trump 'incoherent' at Quantico meeting
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said Thursday President Trump was “incoherent” when he spoke to the country’s top generals and admirals at a meeting in Quantico, Va., earlier in the week.
“Apparently, some of the generals were trying to take notes and they just abandoned their notes because it was incoherent and very dangerous,” Dean told CNN anchor John Berman.
Dean called the gathering Tuesday “an extraordinarily dangerous, reckless, vain thing to do on both of their [Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s] parts.”
“Then to stand before them, rambling about how he walks on stairs, what wars he’s solved, that he doesn’t like the design of battleships,” Dean said. “Does he want them to be gold or something? Just bizarre comments that meandered.”
Johnson: Trump 'having fun' with shutdown memes but takes 'no pleasure' in cuts
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said President Trump is “having fun” with shutdown memes but insisted the president and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought take “no pleasure” in their plans to lay off federal workers and cancel government programs amid a shutdown.
His comments came in a Friday press conference after Trump posted a video on social media late Thursday depicting Vought as the grim reaper.
“Are they taking great pleasure in that? No. Is he trolling the Democrats? Yes,” Johnson said.”That’s what President Trump does, and people are having fun with this.”
“Russ takes no pleasure in this,” Johnson added. “Russ wants to see a smaller, more efficient, more effective federal government, as we do. He doesn’t want people to lose jobs. He doesn’t want to do that. But he has — that’s his responsibility.”
“The president takes the pleasure in this, but if you’re giving — if Chuck Schumer is going to give Donald Trump the opportunity to determine what the priorities are, he’s going to exercise that.”
Risch supports Trump’s ‘armed conflict’ declaration on drug cartels
The Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is supportive of President Trump’s decision to declare the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels, a spokesperson for the panel told The Hill on Friday.
The support from Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) comes after Trump’s notification to Congress earlier this week justifying its military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea. Trump declared the U.S. is now at war with drug cartels deemed by the White House as terrorist groups.
“The Chairman is supportive of President Trump’s decisive actions to protect Americans from illicit narcotics and the drug cartels that bring them to the U.S.,” a committee spokesperson told The Hill.
Democrats argue Trump must seek war powers authority from Congress before taking such action.
The Pentagon has conducted at least three military strikes on boats Trump has claimed were carrying drugs to the U.S. At least 17 people were killed in the attacks. The administration has yet to make public proof the boats were carrying drugs.
Jeffries: Trump ‘unserious’ about shutdown
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) claimed Friday morning that President Trump is “unserious” about ending the federal shutdown, as the two political leaders have continued their back-and-forth over government funding.
“It’s further confirmation that Republicans are the ones who were clearly determined to shut the government down,” Jeffries said during an appearance on MSNBC. “Everything that President Trump has done subsequent to Monday has been unhinged and unserious.”
“In fact, Donald Trump is in the presidential witness protection program – no one can find him when it comes to the government shutdown issue, because he knows he’s responsible for having caused it,” he told “Morning Joe” host Jonathan Lemire. “And the behavior, the erratic behavior that we’ve seen is further confirmation of that unfortunate fact.”
Rand Paul pulls out Rush lyrics to criticize 'politics as usual crowd'
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) quoted the band Rush in criticizing politicians amid the government shutdown on Friday morning.
“A quote from Rush I used to use (before I got the cease and desist letter) was from The Spirit of Radio: . . . glittering prizes and endless compromises Shatter the illusion of integrity,” he wrote on X.
“Because the words described the politics as usual crowd so well.”
In 2010, Paul received a cease-and-desist letter from Rush for using the band’s songs at his political rallies.
“Wonder if repeating them now will excite their lawyers again?” he asked in the post.
Cori Bush launches comeback House bid in Missouri
Former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) announced Friday that she’s launching a comeback bid to represent Missouri’s 1st Congressional District after she was ousted in her primary last year by Rep. Wesley Bell (D-Mo.).
“I ran for Congress because I know what it feels like to be a working-class St. Louisan. Too often unseen, unheard, left out,” Bush said in a more than two-minute ad. “I promised to fight for St. Louis, and we delivered.”
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