BREAKING UPDATE: Schumer Shutdown Imminent: Measures to Avert Government Showdown Fail in the Senate – OMB Dir. Russ Vought Prepares for Orderly Shutdown
BREAKING UPDATE: The Schumer Shutdown will take effect at 12:01 am after two measures to avert the government shutdown failed in the Senate.
The measures needed 60 votes to pass. The GOP-backed measure failed to pass in a 55-45 vote – Rand Paul voted with the Democrats.
Update: Republicans Senators blocked the Democrats’ proposal to fund healthcare for illegal aliens along party lines 53-47.
47-53, Senate GOP rejects Dems’ proposal along party lines to fund the govt — includes reversing Medicaid cuts, extending ACA subsidies.
Now, the Dems will block the GOP’s straight extension of government funding for seven weeks.
Then, the government will shutdown at midterm
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 30, 2025
Second Update: Three Democrat Senators: Fetterman (PA), Catherine Cortez (NV) and King (ME) voted with the Republicans on the GOP-backed measure.
The vote is still ongoing.
NEWS — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) votes with GOP on clean CR. The vote is ongoing
Her statement: pic.twitter.com/0G8ghbz8XS
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 30, 2025
The US Senate on Tuesday afternoon voted on measures to avert a looming midnight government shutdown.
The Senate is currently voting on two bills.
The Hill reported:
The Senate is voting on two competing bills to avert a government shutdown at midnight.
The chamber will first vote on a Democratic proposal that pairs a funding extension with health care provisions, then the GOP’s House-passed “clean” stopgap bill.
Both are expected to fail, plunging Washington into its first shutdown in more than five years.
WATCH:
President Trump suggested to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that if the Democrats force a government shutdown, he will take “irreversible” measures to implement his agenda.
“The last person that wants it shut down is us. Now, with that being said, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like,” Trump said.
“They’re taking a risk by having a shutdown,” he added, pointing to the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars that he plans to cut.
DEVELOPING…check back for live updates…
Update: OMB Director Russel Vought said agencies should “execute their plans for an orderly shutdown.”
— Office of Management and Budget (@WHOMB) September 30, 2025
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