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A sign with a notice of closure is seen pinned on the fence to the National Zoo on Oct. 12, 2025, in Washington, D.C. . The closure affects all the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, its research centers and the National Zoo. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Senate left for its customary long weekend Thursday afternoon, following a brief three days in session despite the ongoing government shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House remained on an extended break from Capitol Hill, where neither Democrats nor Republicans seemed motivated to talk to each other despite mounting repercussions from the funding lapse.<\/p>\n

Federal courts, for example,\u00a0reported just as the shutdown began<\/a> Oct. 1, they could use \u201cfee balances and other funds not dependent on a new appropriation\u201d to keep up and running through Friday, Oct. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the shutdown continues after Judiciary funds are exhausted, the courts will then operate under the terms of the Anti-Deficiency Act, which allows work to continue during a lapse in appropriations if it is necessary to support the exercise of Article III judicial powers,\u201d the announcement stated. \u201cUnder this scenario, each court and federal defender\u2019s office would determine the staffing resources necessary to support such work.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the courts wrote in an email to States Newsroom there were no updates to offer on funding or operations as of Thursday but signaled there could potentially be an announcement Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump spending cuts, layoffs\u00a0<\/h4>\n

The shutdown has had widespread ramifications across all three branches of government, including the Trump administration\u2019s decision to cut spending approved by Congress and lay off thousands of federal employees, though that was\u00a0temporarily halted<\/a> by a federal judge this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Federal workers who are categorized as essential will not receive their paychecks until after the shutdown ends. Furloughed employees may never receive the back pay authorized in a 2019 law if the Trump administration reinterprets it, as officials have said they might.\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of the consequences produced any real sense of urgency this week on Capitol Hill, where West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice organized\u00a0a birthday party for his dog<\/a>, or at the White House, where President Donald Trump\u00a0held a ball<\/a> for donors to his ballroom and focused on foreign policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just as they have for the last several weeks, members of Congress and administration officials continued holding separate press conferences and TV news appearances, lambasting their political opponents, none of which will help move the two sides closer together to reopen government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Failed vote No. 10<\/h4>\n

Senators failed for the 10th time to advance the stopgap government spending bill on a\u00a051-45 vote<\/a>, short of the 60 needed to move forward under the chamber\u2019s legislative filibuster. Republicans control the chamber with 53 seats.<\/p>\n

The Senate was also unable to move past a procedural hurdle on the full-year Defense Department funding bill after a\u00a050-44 vote<\/a>. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the bill this summer on a broadly bipartisan 26-3 vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters ahead of the vote that Democrats want some of the other annual appropriations bills added on to create a larger bill, though he didn\u2019t say which of the dozen he prefers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the Defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety,\u201d Schumer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added later that leaders from both political parties \u201chave always negotiated these appropriations agreements in a bipartisan way. Once again, they\u2019re just going at it alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, appeared to offer a package of bills negotiated between the parties before the vote on the defense bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this to be an open process with an opportunity to add additional bipartisan bills that address vital domestic priorities, including biomedical and scientific research and infrastructure,\u201d Collins said. \u201cAnd we want members to have a voice in the funding decisions that affect all of our states and constituents back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stopgap bills in 2025<\/h4>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said during a floor speech earlier in the day the short-term government funding bill is needed to give lawmakers more time to negotiate final versions of the full-year spending bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re simply asking them to extend current funding bills for a few weeks while we work on full-year appropriations,\u201d Thune said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congress is supposed to work out a bipartisan agreement between the House and Senate on those bills by the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, but hasn\u2019t finished on time since the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So every September, once back from their August recess, the House and Senate write a stopgap spending bill that typically keeps the lights on until mid-December.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those short-term measures, sometimes called continuing resolutions or CRs, were traditionally negotiated among Republican and Democratic leaders in both chambers until earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Republicans, bolstered by a sweep in last year\u2019s elections, decided in March to write a six-month stopgap spending bill on their own, after two bipartisan short-term bills were approved earlier in the fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats voiced frustration with the process but ultimately\u00a0helped Republicans<\/a> get past a procedural vote that required the support of at least 60 lawmakers, allowing the March stopgap to advance toward a simple majority\u00a0passage vote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Republicans repeated their previously successful maneuver last month, writing a stopgap spending bill on their own that would fund the government through Nov. 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats, however, changed tactics and have voted repeatedly to block\u00a0the House-passed stopgap bill<\/a> from advancing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Health care standoff<\/h4>\n

Democrats maintain that Republican leaders must negotiate to extend the enhanced tax credits that are set to expire at the end of the year for people who buy their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republican leaders have said publicly over and over that they will, but cannot guarantee Democrats a final agreement will be able to pass both chambers. They also say talks will only begin after the stopgap bill becomes law and the government reopens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the fact we\u2019re only in this position because of Democrats\u2019 poor policy choices, Republicans are ready for that discussion,\u201d Thune said. \u201cBut only once we\u2019ve reopened the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thune also raised concerns over what message it would send for GOP leaders to negotiate during the shutdown, which he said would endorse the use of funding lapses to achieve policy or political goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shutdowns in history<\/h4>\n

Republicans forced the last two government shutdowns; the first in 2013 over efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the second in 2019 over Trump\u2019s insistence lawmakers approve more funding for the border wall. Both were unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a floor speech Thursday that Republicans drafting the stopgap spending bill on their own is a stark contrast to how things have worked for years and that they can\u2019t expect Democrats to vote for something in which they had no say.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the last month, the Republican leader\u2019s favorite number has been 13. He keeps citing 13 CRs that we passed when I was majority leader. Of course we did,\u201d Schumer said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he fails to mention \u2014 I\u2019m not sure if he forgets, or he\u2019s deliberately trying to ignore it \u2014 is that those 13 CRs were the product of bipartisan negotiation, of serious conversation. We had to make changes in those bills when our Republican colleagues suggested it,\u201d he added. \u201cThey were in the minority, but they had the right to be heard, a right that has been completely shut out for Democrats under this new Republican majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer warned Republicans about open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act Marketplace beginning on Nov. 1, saying tens of millions of Americans will soon realize what congressional inaction means for their family budgets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said Republicans\u2019 unwillingness to negotiate before the shutdown began or since shows they \u201ceither don\u2019t understand it or they\u2019re brutally callous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I want to be happy Mike\u2019<\/h4>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson said during a Thursday morning press conference that Republicans \u201chave no idea\u201d how the government shutdown will end, and blamed Democrats in the Senate for not voting to advance the stopgap bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Homeland Security Committee Chair\u00a0Andrew R. Garbarino of New York said the government shutdown is undermining the day-to-day operations of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shutdown is making our country less safe,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Garbarino said roughly 90% of federal employees at the Department of Homeland Security are required to continue working because they have essential roles such as vetting customs at ports of entry and monitoring air space at airports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0those<\/a> working without pay include 63,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees; more than 61,000 Transportation Security Administration agents; and 8,000 Secret Service agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Garbarino added that he was grateful Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was using funds from the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d to pay the roughly 49,000 Coast Guard personnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement to States Newsroom, DHS said it would be able to continue hiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and \u201cdeploy law enforcement across the country to make America safe again\u201d due to funding from the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill.\u201d Amid the government shutdown, the Trump administration has continued its aggressive immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

Johnson expressed his frustration that some Homeland Security employees were working without pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not have Border Patrol agents not (being) paid right now because Chuck Schumer wants to play political games to cover his tail,\u201d the Louisiana Republican said. \u201cI don\u2019t like being mad Mike, I want to be happy Mike \u2026 but I am so upset about this.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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