The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer from New York, speaks on Friday, October 3, 2025, with reporters at a press conference in the US Capitol (photo of Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) on Friday, October 3, 2025)
Washington – An agreement on the reopening of the Federal Government was nowhere in sight on Friday after the US Senate Democrats and Republicans had failed for the fourth time on Friday to work on a deal, and the spokesman for House, Mike Johnson, announced that he would only bring his members back in the middle of the month.
Two votes from the Senate to promote the financing laws as expected, since the Democrats of the Senate remained in the demands of the Republicans to request the subsidies of health care in relation to forceful insurance premiums.
The Republicans claim that they will only negotiate when the government is reopened.
The focus of the argument is two separate government financing calculations. One is a 91-page side Homely republican The invoice The government would keep that open until November 21.
The other is a 68-page democrat Counter This aims to provide funds by October, while certain health financing and subsidies in federal health are restored and expanded permanently.
Republicans failed again 54-44To achieve enough democratic support to achieve the 60 votes – although Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada and John Fetterman from Pennsylvania closed to the GOP, as well as Main’s Senator Angus King, an independent. The Republican Senator Rand Paul von Kentucky voted no.
The Democrat’s plan also fell in one 46-52 Vote.
“It is always wrong to put down the government,” said Fetterman in front of the Senate Chamber, after he was voted on both bills. “Why are the S – T?”
Sens. Chris Coons, a Democrat of Delaware, and Jerry Moran, a Republican of Kansas, did not vote on a bill.
The Senate will not return to work until Monday if two more votes are planned for the same law templates.
After the voices, Johnson said that the house would stay during the break until October 14th, which means that government resting until at least if the Democrats in the Senate could continue their resistance to the house law.
Nonstop messages
Republican and democratic leaders spent another day on the Capitol Hill and hammered their shutdown messages.
At a press conference in the morning in the middle of the Grand Statuary Hall of Capitol, Johnson and the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, doubled that the Democrats block the financing of the government through a policy that would provide the Republican immigrants without legal status health care.
“We challenge you not to say why you are not trying to grant illegal foreigners if you put it in your own legislation,” said Johnson, pointing out a poster of the highlighted language from the Democrats suggestion.
The Democrat’s plan includes the language that has reverse the reductions of Medicaid’s GOP around 1 Billion US dollar, which President Donald Trump signed on July 4 as part of a tax and expenditure pace package.
Johnson welcomed an impartial congress office find In August, the modern law would mean that around 1.4 million immigrants lose health insurance.
“This is exactly what we promised and that is exactly what is achieved,” said the Republican in Louisiana.
The population groups that are supposed to lose the cover analysis through the non -profit organization for health policy KFF.
The longstanding federal politics prohibits immigrants without legal status in the United States to maintain the health care financed by the government.
Premium hikes in healthcare
On their own set of press conferences in the afternoon, democratic leaders beat what they described as a “Republican health crisis”.
Hakeem Jeffries, leader of house minority, pointed out a poster that plans for 2026 plans in Georgia, Idaho and Virginia premium increases with premiums with increases in health.
“The crisis currently has a real impact on the Americans of the working class,” said the New York Democrat.
Jeffries questioned why the Republicans expanded numerous tax reductions in July -Budget -but also referred to as “a big beautiful law”, but could not have the trouble to extend the premium improvement of tax credits for people who buy health insurance on the marketplace for the Affordable Care Act.
“The Republicans have concentrated on their only big, ugly bill all year round so that they could permanently extend massive tax benefits for the rich,” said Jeffries.
Chuck Schumer, Chairman of the Senate Minister, was also armed with a number of posters for his SNAP briefing after the financing law had failed.
A political graphic arrow was shown, which indicates “false” when the Democrats threatened state closure on the health care of immigrants without legal status.
“They thought they could make us and threaten us and frighten us. It doesn’t work because my Caucus and my Democrats are firmly convinced that we have to protect the health care of the American people,” said Schumer.
Senator Brian Schatz von Hawaii said about the news of the House members who have not returned next week: “There is no clearer illustration for their lack of seriousness in relation to the reopening of the government and the solution to the health crisis.”
“It relocates authority to the executive”
Johnson dismissed Democrats’ struggle for health care as a “political topic of conversation”.
When asked about the Trump government Threats Johnson said “When the congress decides to switch off the lights, the government closes the authority to the executive.
“The president has no pleasure in it, but if Chuck Schumer Donald Trump gives the opportunity to determine what the priorities are, he will exercise this opportunity and we are there,” said Johnson.
When Johnson has been pressed by a reporter about the memes that the White House has published in the past few days, he replied: “What you try to have fun to make light is the absurdity of the position of the Democrats.”
On Tuesday, the White House released an Ai Deepfak video that Jeffries represented in a sombrero and mustache when Mariachi music played, while Schumer talks about fraudsters with a wrong voice who does not speak English.
