Senate Votes AGAINST Republican House Shut Down Try for the 14th Time….

Things ARE fluid….

The straight up Johnson/Trump thing ain’t gonna work…

The Lawmakers ARE gonna have to do what Congress does ….

Compromise….

(There are talks going on in private)

And?

Every-time Trump & Co. threaten to cut jobs or NOT pay people?

It REALLY IS DISRESPECT-ABLE to Everyone…

 

We’ll watch as the heat rises for the ‘lawmakers’…

When it get hot enough?

They’ll stop dancing and get something passed…

But it appears Democrats are NOT gonna get rolled….

 

The Senate rejected the House-passed funding patch Tuesday afternoon for the 14th time, as Congress is poised to beat the record later in the day for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

There is some newfound hope on Capitol Hill that a bipartisan agreement can soon be reached to fund federal agencies, since private talks are ramping upamong a small group of rank-and-file lawmakers. Still, the talking points of party leaders remain partisan and despondent.

“Republicans seem willing to tell their constituents: Screw you,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a floor speech Tuesday.

The New York Democrat noted that millions of people who buy health insurance on the federal marketplace got their first glimpse over the weekend of how substantially their premiums will increase if Republicans don’t agree to extend subsidies set to expire at year’s end.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said he’s “optimistic” a deal can be reached this week to end the funding lapse.

“Democrats’ victims are everywhere,” Thune said Tuesday. “We just need five Democrats to join the three who are already voting with us, and we could end all this pain and reopen the government. That’s all it takes.”

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Any possible extension of soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies will need to get 60 votes, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday as rank-and-file lawmakers close in on a deal that could reopen the government and pave the way for additional heath care talks.

Democrats have privately floated an arrangement for the Senate to hold a vote to extend the subsidies at a simple-majority threshold rather than the 60-vote margin for most legislation. Thune rejected the idea, saying there was “no way” that would happen.

“Honestly, think about what the Democrats are asking us to do here,” he told reporters. “They’re saying it’s going to take 60 just to fund the government, but we want to have a vote on a massive sort of piece of health care legislation at 51.”

Agreeing to a health care vote would be part of a larger shutdown-ending dealthe rank-and-file senators are discussing. It would also include advancing a new stopgap spending bill, moving some full-year funding bills, plus holding a guaranteed vote once the government reopens on the ACA subsidies, which expire Dec. 31.

Thune said he was open to another possibility under discussion: attaching the full-year Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction-VA and Legislative Branch appropriations bills to an updated stopgap….

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Thune said Monday he hopes to have a new stopgap ready to send back to the House by the end of the week. He said Tuesday that senators could work into the weekend if they are on a “glide path” to ending the 35-day shutdown….

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