Posted on 10/30/2025 12:22:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senators in both parties — below the leadership level — are starting to see an unmistakable shift that they hope leads to a bipartisan agreement to end the shutdown, perhaps as early as next week, according to more than a dozen sources.
That agreement almost certainly won’t happen this week. Still, Republican and Democratic senators are quietly discussing how to rebuild Congress’ broken spending process, including several bills that would fund the government into next year once it reopens.
There’s no sign yet that Democrats are willing to support the House GOP’s stopgap bill on Thursday, when it’s next scheduled for a Senate vote, but Semafor confirmed a noticeable thaw in the shutdown dynamics among members and aides across the aisle.
It’s a delicate moment for the Senate, which prides itself as the more bipartisan chamber of Congress but has deadlocked for more than a month. Not to mention that the momentum now happening could easily be dashed.
“I’ve been in enough conversations to know that something is different this week than last week, in which there is an interest in doing at least four more appropriation bills across the Senate floor,” said Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. “Democrats still have to figure out how to agree to eliminate the shutdown.”
Moran is talking to Democrats about spending bills, including specific legislation on defense, labor, Commerce-Justice-Science and transportation. He said he’s still awaiting “compatible movement on a [continuing resolution], so that the appropriations process has enough time to do its deal.”
Behind the scenes, Democrats and Republicans see next week as potentially more fertile territory for the government to reopen. That’s because of a dizzying series of events set to happen over the next few days: Food stamps and other government benefits will run out in many states on Saturday, followed...
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The riots will start soon thereafter and John Podesta's civil war blueprint will be fully operational.
Except for the military, America and the American People NEED most of the rest of the federal gov’t to be shut down - PERMANENTLY!!!
MAGA with MORE freedom and LESS gov’t!!
LESS gov’t, MORE prosperity!!!
Whenever the word bipartisan is mentioned it’s BOHICA time.
Democrats want chaos they want anarchy they want pain and suffering. It’s the only way they can get their lazy ars welfare recipient voters off their rear ends and to the polls.
Agree. “Bipartisan” means conservative non RINOs get screwed. The left has NOTHING to bring to the table. Never have, never will. All they represent is plunder and looting and tyranny and corruption.
Yep bipartisan means a screw job for us
Democrats want to postpone opening Fed Govt after next Tuesday’s
elections, as to not depress their Crazy Left voters.
IF the Republicans give up ANYTHING at all, to the Democrats in exchange for their vote, they have CAVED.
The Dems are salivating to push this into Christmas. They have the talking point machine going overtime.
...imagine that, GOP caving into the Dems...
One thing I love about Trump - he doesn’t “cave in”...
“””One thing I love about Trump - he doesn’t “cave in”...””
He is not a spelunker.
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