OAN Staff Sophia Flores and Katherine Mosack
2:25 PM – Friday, October 3, 2025
Both GOP and Democrat-backed stopgap funding bills failed to pass in the Senate, resulting in a prolonged government shutdown.
On Friday, Senators rejected a Republican backed bill that would’ve averted a shutdown until November 21st. The resolution was rejected by a vote of 54-44, just shy of the 60 votes required to advance.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the lone Republican to vote against the GOP bill. Meanwhile, Senators John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Angus King (I-Maine), voted with Republicans in favor of the legislation.
Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) did not vote.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) expressed reluctance to move forward with a rumored meeting with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), having little faith that the Democrats are ready to make peace.
“I don’t think there’s at this point a lot to negotiate, and I think at this point a lot of the more productive conversations are happening outside of the leader’s office,” Thune said on Friday.
Fellow Republican Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) echoed Thune’s sentiment.
“I’m not optimistic that we have the numbers at this stage of the game, but it really depends on if any of our colleagues want to get to yes,” Rounds said of the six additional votes needed to pass the House-passed resolution bill.
Meanwhile, Schumer indicated no intention of backing down. Instead, he doubled down on his party’s demands for extended Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance subsidies that will expire at the end of the year, a key point of contention in the lapse in government funding.
“We’re ready to work on a path forward to lower health care costs for the American people and fund the government,” Schumer said in a speech on Friday.
While Rounds granted that ACA negotiations should be resolved by November 1st, he said that Democrats hurt their argument by refusing to reopen the government for further discussion, and that “their time is running out, as well.”
The Democrat-backed counterproposal to end the shutdown also failed on Friday with a procedural vote of 46-52, missing the 60-vote filibuster by 14 votes.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pushed back the lower chamber’s work period by a week. The House will now be in session from Tuesday, October 7th, to Monday, October 13th.
He told reporters earlier in the day that the House will return “as soon as Chuck Schumer allows us to reopen the government.”
The Senate adjourned for the weekend on Friday at 3:57 p.m. and will reconvene on Monday at 3 p.m. to vote for a second time on the Democrat bill, and for a fourth time on the Republican bill. This means that the shutdown will endure through the weekend.
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