Congress barrels toward new shutdown deadline with ‘lack of trust’ and little time

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/14/2025 | Rachel Schilke

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The longest government shutdown in history is over, but appropriators still have a long way to go to get nine of the 12 necessary funding bills over the finish line by Jan. 31, 2026.

The government reopened after 43 days, following the House’s passage, mostly along party lines, with six Democrats voting in favor and two Republicans voting against, of a legislative package that extended funding until the end of January and included three appropriations bills.

However, with the new January deadline, appropriators are up against the clock, as both chambers must now agree on the nine remaining bills so they can be sent to President Donald Trump’s desk before funding runs out once again.

Beginning Thursday, there are 57 weekdays until Jan. 31, but the House is only set to be in session for another 17 days, with the Senate in session for 20 days for the remainder of 2025. The House, in particular, is backlogged after being out of session for 54 days, already eyeing a stock trading bill and legislation to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

As of now, the House has passed all 12 appropriations bills out of committee and passed the defense and energy bills on the floor, with defense gaining bipartisan support. The Senate, meanwhile, has passed eight of the 12 bills out of committee, but only the three in the minibus have made it to the floor.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) said the three-bill minibus and the January funding patch would “buy us time” to see how much “damage was done” during the shutdown.

[SmokingJoe]

Inevitable ending of filibuster?

[Paladin2]

Yep, just pork barreling along....

[pas]

Do their damn jobs and get them to the Senate as required. They should have all been out of the House long ago.

[SaxxonWoods]

This is what we and they get because Congress wants it that way. If they didn’t, they’d they would pass an annual budget as instructed by the Constitution.

[lee martell]

Dems want the threat of another Govt. Shutdown to replace the threat of another baseless Impeachment.

[grumpygresh]

It’s clear. The goal of the Dems is to cripple the economy and depress GDP. This is their only strategy to win the midterms. It doesn’t matter that the Dems are making things worse. They know that if the economy is sick, the party in power loses seats.
Have to get rid of filibuster.
Trump and GOP need to call Dems out very directly and explicitly on this. It’s basically treason and sabotage of the economy by Dems to gain power.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Hopefully Congress pushes through legislation requiring the payrolls for the military and border patrol to continue during shutdowns. They should also consider legislating away maintaining payrolls for Article 3 court employees, including judges.