After 40 days of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the Senate has voted to advance a bipartisan measure to reopen federal agencies. The bill, which combines a short-term funding plan with three full-year appropriations bills, now moves to the House and then to President Trump for approval. If passed, it would restore pay for federal workers and end weeks of disruption across the country.
00:00Rules of the Senate. Do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to calendar 168.
00:06The question is, is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to proceed to H.R. 5371,
00:13an act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026,
00:18and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close upon consideration?
00:25Mr. Banks.
00:26Mr. Barrasso.
00:28Aye.
00:28Mr. Bennett.
00:30No.
00:31Mrs. Blackburn.
00:33Ms. Cortez Masto.
00:35Aye.
00:35Mrs. Shaheen.
00:36Aye.
00:40Ms. Rosen.
00:42Aye.
00:49Senators voting in the affirmative.
00:52Barrasso.
00:52Blackburn.
00:54Bozeman.
00:54Britt.
00:55Budd.
00:56Capito.
00:58Cassidy.
00:58Collins.
00:59Mr. Schumer.
01:02No.
01:03Mr. Fetterman, aye.
01:10Mr. Warnock.
01:13No.
01:14Democratic leader.
01:17Mr. President, we asked President Trump to step in and meet with us to deliver lower health
01:23care for Americans.
01:24And instead, Donald Trump has taken the American people hostage from cutting off food aid to hungry
01:32families and vets and seniors and kids to manufacturing flight cancellations to cutting off home heating aid while he builds a billion-dollar ballroom with gold-plated toilets.
01:45Therefore, therefore, I must vote no.
01:50This health care crisis is so severe, so urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this CR that fails to address the health care crisis.
02:03But let me be clear, however this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue.
02:18Mr. President.
02:19Majority Leader.
02:20Mr. President, after 40 long days, I'm hopeful that we can finally bring this shutdown to an end.
02:25And I don't need to go over all the reasons why it's imperative that we get the government open as soon as possible.
02:30From the truly precarious situation we are in with regard to air travel to the fact that our staffs have been working without pay for a full 40 days now,
02:38all of us, Republicans and Democrats, who support this bill know that the time to act is now.
02:47Senator from Vermont.
02:49I understand.
02:50If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums in the Affordable Care Act.
03:04In my state of mind and throughout this country, for certain groups of people, it will be a tripling and a quadrupling of their premiums.
03:13There are people who will now be paying 50% of their limited incomes for health care.
03:21Senator from Kansas.
03:23Mr. President, thank you.
03:24Under our legislation, all federal employees, including members of our military and Coast Guard, the Capitol Police officers, Border Patrol agents, TSA screeners, air traffic controllers, all will receive their back wages.
Be the first to comment