Posted on 11/08/2025 10:49:17 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Saturday that senators will remain in session until a deal is unlocked to reopen the government as the shutdown reached Day 39 with members still far from an agreement.
When asked if lawmakers will stay in town until a deal is reached, Thune responded in the affirmative. The upper chamber was scheduled to be out of Washington for recess around Veterans Day, but will instead be in session.
Thune spoke as the Senate convened for a rare Saturday session after the path toward a deal took multiple turns on Friday.
Democrats on Friday proposed a one-year extension of the enhanced health care subsidies that are set to expire at the end of December alongside a clean continuing resolution and a three-bill package of full-year spending bills, known as a “minibus.”
Republicans swiftly shot down that offer, with a bipartisan group of lawmakers continuing discussions overnight. Thune said that the immediate goal is to get text of the minibus nailed down and released, with a hope of voting on that some time this weekend.
Thune added that bipartisan talks that took place overnight have been “positive.”
“The question is whether we can have everything ready to go,” Thune said, noting that he’s been in discussions with appropriators about minibus text. “We’re getting close to having it ready. Ideally, it’d be great to set it up so we could vote today, but we have to … have the votes to actually pass it.”
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What ever you do Senate... DON’T CAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the Democrats want to filibuster, make them stand one by one in the front of the Senate and talk continuously. They don’t want to come to any agreement, they just want Republicans to give in.
Ban the Senate members from going home locally and eating out.
Speaker Mike Johnson can also shut off the water to the Capitol gyms.
He already has.
Thune said that the immediate goal is to get text of the minibus nailed down and released, with a hope of voting on that some time this weekend.
They've already established he's a whore - now they're just negotiating the price.
They are ALL whores.
They already shot down the minibus that extended Obozocare…for now
Why not 39 days ago.
This isn’t about the Senate staying in session until Democrats vote to restart the Government.
It’s about preventing Trump from making recess appointments.
Doesn’t the House have to approve anything the Senate changes.
None of this 💩 matters as the House won’t approve ANYTHING but the clean CR they already passed.
In 1907, JP Morgan locked bankers in his private library to force them to agree to a plan to stop a financial panic. Lock all Senate members in the Senate Chambers until a a deal is done.
Still no Trump recess appointments?
The Senate has been and continues to be in Session.
Trump can only make appointments if Senate is in Recess.
So this is NOT news and Thune remains a never-Trumper.
He has not caved. Look up the minibus items.
“0” to do with recess appointments.
Any contemplation of this is a cave.
There are several instances of "minibus" out there, from years back (2023) to current.
ACA and the minibus items are two separate things.
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