00:02Senate Republicans believe Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will give members of his party the green light to vote yes on a continuing resolution after a very successful election night.
00:12The elections will be over with, so they will have turned out their base, and I think that makes it a little bit easier for them now to come back in and actually get something done.
00:20Senate Republicans believe the government shutdown could end as soon as Thursday or Friday now that key elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and California are over.
00:31Here's what Senator Mark Wayne Mullen told reporters about some of his Democratic colleagues.
00:36But I will tell you, there's enough Democrats that I'm friends with that were willing to vote last week, and they were assured that Schumer would let them vote the way they need to this week if they would just wait until after the elections.
00:48The Democrats who are expected to flip represent battleground states, where continuing to vote against government funding could be used against them in the 2026 midterm elections.
00:58Senators who represent safe Democratic states appear ready to hold firm.
01:02My view on this is that we are in this fight for people who have no voice, who have no lobbyists, and who are literally making decisions.
01:12Do they keep their health insurance, or do they figure out how to pay rent?
01:16What have we done to endure all of this inconvenience and some pain if we don't accomplish something for the American people?
01:29And I sense and sympathize with the hurt that people are feeling, but the greater hurt is to go without health insurance.
01:43So where do we go from here? Well, they need to come up with a new end date for government funding.
01:48The continuing resolution they've been voting on for the last five weeks only funds the government through November 21st.
01:54Obviously, that date won't work anymore.
01:57So Republican leaders in the House and Senate are looking for an extension that will now last until the end of December, possibly the end of January or March.
02:05But they have not come to an agreement.
02:07I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Outro News.
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