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Posted on 11/10/2025 9:28:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It's all over in the Senate, at least. The cave on Chuck Schumer's stupid and pointless gesture has come to its predictable conclusion.
The vote for final passage, which only required a simple majority, is interesting. The same Senate Democrats who voted to break the filibuster also voted for the deal that will end the Schumer Shutdown:
The Senate passed a bill to reopen the federal government Monday evening, taking the next step toward ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
The chamber agreed to speed up the process to pass a bipartisan agreement struck over the weekend. The measure will now head to the House, which is expected to take it up later this week after staying away from Washington for more than 50 days.
“I could spend an hour talking about all the problems we’ve seen, which have snowballed the longer this shutdown has gone on,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said in a floor speech Monday. “But all of us, Democrat and Republican, who voted for last night’s bill are well aware of the facts, and I am grateful that the end is in sight.”
The bill passed 60-40, with seven Democrats and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) joining Republicans to pass it. One Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (Kentucky) voted no.
The bill now passes to the House, where the narrow majority might present some issues for passage. As I wrote earlier, Donald Trump has gotten ahead of that by endorsing the package:
It will still take days to reopen the government. Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday urged House members — who have not held a vote in nearly two months as they took an extended recess during the shutdown — to begin the process of returning to Washington “right now.”
At the White House, Mr. Trump said that he approved of the plan.
“We’ll be opening up our country very quickly,” he said, calling the package “very good.”
Right now, the shortest estimate for getting the House into full session is 36 hours or so. That puts the end of the shutdown sometime on Wednesday.
Johnson sounded confident that he has the votes among the House GOP to pass this bill. Rep. Ralph Norman reversed his earlier objection today, which signals that Johnson has a good chance of muscling it through. However, the support for the bill itself from so-called 'moderates' among Senate Democrats might portend votes from Hakeem Jeffries' own caucus too.
Stay tuned. We'll have more tomorrow as developments emerge.
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Let’s exchange Rand Paul for Fetterman. I don’t care about abortion any more.
There are times for being a maverick, and there are times for being a team player. Rand sucks when it comes to the latter.
“Go along to get along”
It’s all the rage these days
"Johnson said members should begin returning to Washington 'right now' in anticipation of a vote later this week." Tomorrow, Veteran's Day is a Federal holiday. They'll drag their feet coming back.
What did Rand accomplish? What did he hope to accompalish? I know that he’s been high on his own supply about wanting KY farmers being able to grow THC-laden hemp, but every senator has his pet causes too. Why is Rand so special?
The shortest estimate was the time it takes the Senate to send the bill to them.
When was the last time republicans won a shutdown standoff? Can’t remember once.
He was on the floor talking about, get this, marijuana....
I have to admit that this surprised me.
I expected the Democrats to return to the fold on the final vote because their vote was no longer required. The Democrats could honestly go back to their constituents and say that they voted against the CR, and when pressed they could say that they were for Senate procedures but against the bill itself.
To many, it's a distinction without a difference, but it's a move that's been done many times before when history only remembers the final roll call, not the procedural votes that precede it.
Now, these eight Democrat Senators are forever marked as collaborating with the enemy. On the other hand, politicos like the members of the Senate know that the damage was done by the cloture vote, so these eight Democrats might have been thinking "in for a penny, in for a pound" at this point.
-PJ
“Now, these eight Democrat Senators are forever marked as collaborating with the enemy.”
Very brave if them.
Good thing none live in MN.
Timmy Tampon would have them shot.
“Go along to get along” ain’t new in D.C. It’s been going on for a very long time.
I believe most of the 8 are not running again.
We’ll know what the GOPe gave up by the end of the day, perhaps a year of KenyanKare subsidies or something like that.
You might get an argument from an unborn child in the womb.
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