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Wed, Oct 1, 2025 – Shutdown Day 1:

• Today in the Senate:
  • The House-passed CR failed again 55-45 (60 being required).
    CR Text | Summary | GOP Stmt | D-Stmt
  • The Democratic alternative CR failed again 47-53 (60 being required).
    Text | Sec-by-Sec Summ | Fact Sheet | Health Fact Sheet | D-Stm
• Government shutdown 2025: A guide to what’s still open, what’s closed and what’s fuzzy. While Social Security checks, mail and student loan bills will still be delivered, millions of workers are still set to suffer financial hardship. – Politico
• Trump shields immigration and trade from shutdown fallout. The president is attempting to exact maximum pain on Democrats by pinning the fallout on them while ensuring his own priorities continue unimpeded. – Politico
• Government shutdown takes hold with mass layoffs looming and no end in sight. – AP
  
• Looming health insurance spikes for millions are at the heart of the government shutdown – AP
• These 6 charts explain why the government shut down – NYT
• Republican senator outlines working group’s ideas for extending Obamacare subsidies. Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska is the latest Republican to confirm his participation in negotiations. – Politico
• White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown – Reuters
• White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes – NYT
• What to Expect From the Federal Government Shutdown. – WSJ
• Parts of government halt services in first shutdown since 2019. The Senate voted Wednesday on whether to reopen the government, but Democrats held firm against a Republican plan to extend funding until Nov. 21. – WP
• Trump Plans to Use Shutdown to Fire Federal Workers This Week – Bloomberg

Tues, Sept 30, 2025:

• Today in the Senate:
  • The House-passed CR failed 55-45 (60 being required).
    CR Text | Summary | GOP Stmt | D-Stmt
  • The Democratic alternative CR failed 47-53 (60 being required).
    Text | Sec-by-Sec Summ | Fact Sheet | Health Fact Sheet | D-Stm
  • Therefore the Federal Government Will Shutdown at Midnight.
• Mass email tells federal employees not to blame Trump for government shutdown – FNN
• US government on brink of shutdown after last ditch Senate vote fails – BBC
• Trump Tells Generals the Military Will Be Used to Fight ‘Enemy Within’.  President says some U.S. cities he considers dangerous should become training grounds for American troops – WSJ
• Trump Says Government Shutdown Likely as No Last-Minute Deal Emerges. Funding will lapse at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday unless Congress passes a stopgap spending bill. – WSJ
• Trump Threatens ‘A Lot’ Of Firings as Shutdown Deadline Nears – Bloomberg
• Trump warns Democrats of ‘irreversible’ actions in government shutdown – Reuters
  • Democrats push for health benefits extension amid shutdown threat
  • Trump threatens federal workforce layoffs amid shutdown uncertainty
• Here are some effects of a government shutdown if Congress, Trump don’t reach a deal – AP
• Potential Effects of a Federal Government Shutdown – CBO
• What Trump told POLITICO about the impending government shutdown – Politico
• Republicans decry WH moves to defund oversight activities – Politico
• Trump Administration defunds federal watchdog office – NYT
• Trump and Vought Illegally Defund Nonpartisan Government Watchdogs – Approps/DeLauro
• Senator Murray Takes to Floor to Lay Out How Republicans Are Forcing a Shutdown, Refusing to Prevent Americans’ Health Care Costs from Exploding – Approps/Murray
• There’s only one way to win a shutdown. – NYT/Gingrich

Mon, Sept 29, 2025:

• Trump posts vulgar deepfake slam of Democratic leaders after White House meeting – Politico
• Firing allowed, training is not: Trump administration shares shutdown plans – Reuters
  The impending shutdown will be different from past government closures because the administration has threatened mass firings of federal staff, adding that it could use the lapse in funding to downsize the federal government. The Office of Personnel Management in a Monday memo said while training and onboarding of new federal employees is not allowed under the law dictating the parameters of a shutdown, the employees who oversee any firings are to continue their work. Unlike in past shutdowns, furloughed federal employees will also be allowed to use their government-issued computers to check for layoff notices in their email, according to OPM. (Publisher’s note:  this position of the OPM is contrary to legal precedent, since RIFs have nothing to do with “safety of human life or the protection of property.”)
• Trump’s Meeting With Democrats Yields No Progress, With Shutdown a Day Away – NYT
• No Deal Reached in Talks to Avoid Shutdown – WSJ
• Vance Says US Headed for Shutdown After Talks With Democrats – Bloomberg
• White House shutdown summit fails to produce a deal – Politico
  Congressional leaders left a high-stakes Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump without a breakthrough Monday, greatly raising the likelihood of a government shutdown starting early Wednesday morning.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters at the White House that “there are still large differences between us….Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed before leaving for the White House that the Senate will vote (again) on Tuesday on the House-passed continuing resolution.”
• Shutdown nears as Trump meeting yields no breakthrough with Congress. The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday unless lawmakers act. Democrats and Republicans are at a standstill on health care spending and a funding extension. – WP
• Congressional leaders leave White House meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown – AP
• A government shutdown could start Wednesday. Here’s what to know. – WP
• Federal workers unions call on Schumer, Jeffries to hold the line even if it means a shutdown. “Federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering,” the unions said. – Politico
• Senator Murray Remarks on Senate Republican Bill for Automatic CR – Approps/Murray
• Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an analysis showing that the Trump Administration is violating the law by freezing funding for disasters and emergencies – Approps/DeLauro
• Top Watchdog Again Finds Trump Has Illegally Blocked FEMA Funds—Including for Disaster Preparedness Systems – Approps/Murray

Sun, Sept 28, 2025:

• MONDAY  2pm WHITE HOUSE MEETING: Monday afternoon, the bipartisan congressional leadership will meet with President Trump at the White House to discuss the looming shutdown. (Last week Trump canceled a scheduled meeting.) Read more from: WP | WSJ | NYT | Bloomberg
• Which Federal Employees Will Be Classified as “Excepted?”  The answer is: we do not yet know, for most departments. President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, unlike previous administrations and the first Trump Administration, has failed to post on its website shutdown plans for each of the federal agencies—instead saying only, “In accordance with  Circular A-11, agency contingency plans for a lapse in appropriations are hosted solely on each agency’s website.”  See our shutdown webpage for the latest information we have on agency shutdown plans.
• With three days to go before a U.S. government shutdown, an advocacy group that tracks federal spending warns that about $8 billion approved by Congress for healthcare and education is at risk of going unused, held back by President Donald Trump’s administration. – Reuters

Fri, Sept 26, 2025:

• A federal government shutdown is nearing. Here’s a guide for what to expect. – News from States
• Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats must “dial back” their demands, including extending expiring health care subsidies, to reach a deal. – Bloomberg
• Schumer Sees an Exit Ramp in Standoff Over Shutdown. Senate Democratic leader says extending health-insurance subsidies would be central to any deal. – WSJ
  
• Congress is barreling toward a shutdown, despite the perils. Democrats say they won’t back a GOP bill to extend government funding unless Republicans negotiate with them over health care. – WP
• Democratic Appropriators response to Supreme Court ruling: DeLauro  Murray
• Republicans in Congress must take this spending threat seriously – NYT/GOP opinion
• Supreme Court clears way for Trump to withhold $4B in foreign aid. The ruling could further muddle negotiations over the impending government shutdown. – Politico
• Supreme Court allows Trump officials to freeze billions in foreign aid. The ruling is a victory for the president’s aggressive push to exert greater control over federal spending. – WP
• Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4 Billion in Foreign Aid. The administration had been trying to run out the clock on paying the funds, with authorization set to expire next week. – WSJ
• Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid. The court’s conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed “the potential harm” faced by aid recipients. – NYT
• Supreme Court allows pocket rescission of $4 billion to stand – SCOTUS

Thurs, Sept 25, 2025:

• Feasibility of RIFs around a government shutdown called into question – FNN
• Senator Murray Statement on OMB Memo Issued Last Night – Approps/Murray
  
• House GOP Statement on Impending Shutdown – Approps/Cole
• Democrats dig in on shutdown after White House layoff threat – Politico
• White House begins plan for mass firings if there’s a government shutdown – WP
• OMB tells agencies to draft mass firing plans ahead of potential shutdown – AP
• What we know about how a government shutdown would unfold – AP
• White House threatens sharp cuts in US workforce if government shuts down – Reuters
• How a U.S. Government Shutdown Would Affect You. Social Security and other payments would continue, though a lapse in funding would furlough hundreds of thousands – WSJ
• Threat of mass firings could lead to large numbers of federal workers losing their jobs and worsen the potential disruption to the economy with an already weakening labor market. – Bloomberg

Wed, Sept 24, 2025:

• OMB MEMO: FULL TEXT OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET MEMO
• White House tells agencies to prep mass layoffs for shutdown. Memo says only Trump priority programs are safe if Democrats won’t agree to GOP stopgap funding plan. – Roll Call
• White House budget office tells agencies to draft mass firing plans ahead of potential shutdown – AP
• Schumer hopeful Congress can avoid a shutdown but places onus on Republicans and Trump – Politico
• Jeffries demands ‘ironclad’ health care deal in latest shutdown escalation – Politico
• Trump-Democrats meeting drama fuels risk of shutdown. Fight over health insurance subsidies is the latest battle in standoff as funding deadline nears. – Roll Call
• The government will run out of funding because both sides believe the other will be blamed, and Democrats fear their base. – WP Editorial Bd.

Tues, Sept 23, 2025:

• Trump cancels meeting with Schumer and Jeffries. The president was due to meet with Democratic leaders on Thursday. Speaker Johnson urged Trump to call off the meeting with Democratic leaders.. – Politico
• House centrists are discussing the outlines of a possible compromise to extend Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies in hopes of jump-starting stalled talks over the soon-to-expire tax credits that have also emerged as a key fault line in the brewing government shutdown battle. – Politico
• As US government shutdown nears, Trump administration mum on contingency plans – Reuters
  
• Jeffries: Dems will return to DC during recess to highlight lack of budget talks – The Hill
• The Trump administration would have broad authority to make decisions about spending if the government shuts down next week — and it would also have broad authority to make those decisions if the government stays open under a long-term funding extension. – WP
  “It’s still not clear what parts of the government would close in a shutdown. The White House budget office traditionally publicly posts agency staffing plans as the deadline nears. The Trump administration has not yet shared them on its website this time, and OMB spokespeople did not reply to requests for comment about how much of the government would remain operational if funding lapses.”
  

Mon, Sept 22, 2025:

• Trump to meet with Democratic leaders Thursday with shutdown looming – Politico (but see cancellation above)
• Democrats Can’t Win Another Shutdown Fight – Bloomberg Editorial Bd.
• Democrats Are Picking the Wrong Shutdown Fight – NYT/Nate Silver

Sat, Sept 20, 2025:

• Schumer-Jeffries Letter to Trump: On Saturday, 9/20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sent a letter to Trump accusing him of wanting a shutdown and urging Republicans to negotiate.

Fri, Sept 19, 2025 (UPDATED):

• The House on Friday passed the GOP continuing resolution (CR) 217-212 on a nearly party line vote (1 Dem voting yes, and 2 Rs voting no). However, later on Friday the Senate failed to pass the House GOP CR 44-48, and then failed to pass the Democratic alternative (including health provisions) 47-45 (60 votes being required).
• Both the House and Senate are in recess next week. Senators are due back on September 29 and reportedly plan a repeat vote on the House-passed CR, but  absent an effort by the White House to convene the joint leadership to negotiate a bipartisan compromise, the federal government is on track to run out of funding and shut down at midnight September 30.
  • (Senate rejected) House-Passed CR (HR 5371):  CR Text | Summary | GOP Stmt | D-Stmt
  • (Senate rejected) Dem Alternative:  Text | Sec-by-Sec Summ | Fact Sheet | Health Fact Sheet | D-Stm
• Senate derails funding bills in shutdown stalemate. “It’s this or a shutdown,” the Senate’s top Republican told Democrats Friday. – Politico

Thurs, Sept 18, 2025:

• Democrats are barreling toward a shutdown with no clear plan to get out – Politico
  Party leaders hope a new offer will spark negotiations. That’s about as far as the plan goes.
• Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to reopen negotiations over the stopgap spending bill to insert more security dollars. – Politico
• CBO releases analysis of CR

Wed, Sept 17, 2025:

• The House Wednesday passed a procedural measure 216-210 setting up a vote by Friday on a continuing resolution (CR) to extend funding through November 21. The CR is likely to pass the House, but Senate passage next week is unlikely due to Democratic insistence that the CR include extension of expanded Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies which expire in December. Passage of a CR requires 60 votes in the Senate (to end debate and reach a vote).
• Democrats released alternative CR through October 31 including repeal of OBBBA Medicaid cuts, permanent extension of expanded ACA premium subsidies, provides additional security funding, and extends funds illegally frozen by “pocket rescissions.”.  Text | Section-by-Section Summary | Fact Sheet on Funding | Health provisions Fact Sheet | D-Stmt | CBO Analysis
• House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare – Politico
• In just the past four fiscal years, Congress appropriated in excess of $100 billion more than any president sought for more than 2,000 weapons programs – Roll Call

Tues, Sept. 16, 2025:

• CR Text: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026
• CR Summary | House GOP Release | Jeffries-Schumer Stmt | DeLauro-Murray Stmt
• Senator Murray Remarks on Republicans’ Refusal to Negotiate Bipartisan Legislation to Keep Government Open
• House Republicans roll out 7-week funding patch as shutdown looms. Democrats aren’t guaranteed to back the measure as President Donald Trump roots for GOP leaders to ignore their counterparts across the aisle. – Politico
• Democrats will offer a short-term spending bill that includes an extension of expanded ACA healthcare subsidies, as well as restrictions on Trump’s ability to rescind funding previously approved by Congress. – Politico
• Top appropriators in both chambers are negotiating spending levels for three of the 12 annual funding bills. – Politico
• DeLauro on Latest Nonpartisan Government Watchdog Findings: “The Trump administration has broken the law again.” – Approps/DeLauro
• Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked. Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this. – Approps/DeLauro

Mon, Sept. 15, 2025:

• Trump Illegally Blocking FEMA Funds, Top Government Watchdog Concludes. GAO finds—for the 6th time in recent months—that Trump has illegally impounded funding. – Approps/Murray
• Speaker Johnson says member security funding talks delaying CR rollout – Hill
• WH requests $58 million in security funding following Kirk assassination – CNN

Fri, Sept 12, 2025:

• ‘Don’t even bother dealing with them,’ Trump says of Democrats’ shutdown demands. The president weighed in after top Democratic leaders sketched out ultimatums on health care. – Politico
• White House rescission strategy worries some GOP appropriators. Tactic could be a double-edged sword if a Democrat is president. – Roll Call

Thurs, Sept 11, 2025:

• Today, the House voted to conference with the Senate on 3 bills: Ag-Rural-FDA; Leg. Br.; and MilCon-VA.  HOUSE GOP CONFEREES   HOUSE DEM CONFEREES
• Republicans Eye Government Funding Punt to Nov. 21. – Politico
• Schumer, Jeffries Demand Major Health Care Concessions to Keep Government Funded. 
• Murray, Gillibrand call on HUD IG to look into Trump Administration’s failure to award homeless assistance funding.

Wed, Sept 10, 2025:

• House full committee approved Commerce-Justice-Science 34-28: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | Earmarks | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Adopted Amendments | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
• What the CR timing dispute is really about – Politico
• House GOP Appropriations Chair Cole seeks a conference with the Senate on 3 bills–MilCon-VA, Ag-Rural-FDA, and Legislative Branch bills.
• Senate Democratic Leader Schumer said Wednesday regarding CR developments: “What the Republicans have proposed is not good enough to meet the needs of the American people and not good enough to get our votes.”
• American Public Health Assoc. statement on House L-HHS-Ed bill

Tues, Sept 9, 2025:

• House full committee approved Labor-HHS-Ed 35-28: Text before amendments | Rpt before amendments | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Adopted Amendments | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
• Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily lifted a lower court’s order finding that President Trump’s “pocket rescission” of $4 billion in foreign aid funds was illegal—allowing Trump to continue withholding the funds, even though insufficient time remains for Congress to consider whether to allow the proposed rescission. Roberts’ action contravenes a longstanding legal precedent established by the Comptroller General that rescissions may not be proposed by the President if less than 45 days remains in the fiscal year for Congress to vote on whether to approve the rescission (under procedures laid out by the Impoundment Control Act).
  • This is part of a larger, and highly consequential, effort by the Trump Administration to vastly expand the President’s authority to impound congressionally appropriated funds. Under current law, Presidents must obligate appropriated funds unless Congress approves a rescission of specific funds. The drafters of the Constitution were very clear in their conviction that Congress’s power of the purse was the best defense against an authoritarian leader.
• If Congress decides to advance a continuing resolution (“CR”) to keep the government operating when FY 2026 begins on October 1st, it would presumably fund all programs, projects, and activities at FY 2025 levels.  However, CR’s typically include a list of so-called “anomalies,” or exceptions, where certain programs are funded at different levels. Today, President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget sent congressional appropriators a list of anomalies for a FY 2026 CR in case Congress decides to enact a stopgap measure.  Click here for the White House list of anomalies obtained by Politico.
• Ranking Member DeLauro’s statement on Trump request for 4-month CR

Mon, Sept 8, 2025:

• Congress splinters into unlikely factions over looming government shutdown. Lawmakers and the Trump administration are debating different scenarios to avoid a lapse in federal funding but consensus remains elusive. – Politico
• Democratic appropriators updated their list of FY 2025 funding currently being blocked by the White House budget office (OMB), which they say amounts to $410 billion. “We are now nine months into the year-and weeks away from the end of the fiscal year-and President Trump and Russ Vought continue to withhold hundreds of billions of dollars from families, farmers, children, small businesses, and communities in every part of the country,” Murray and De Lauro said in a joint statement.
• The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court order against OMB’s attempted “pocket” rescission of $4 billion in foreign aid funds. (A pocket rescission is the withholding of funding close to the end of a fiscal year, without leaving Congress sufficient time to reject the proposed rescission and restore the funding before the fiscal year ends.)

Thurs, Sept 4, 2025:

• House passed Energy-Water 214-213: Text | Rpt | R-Summ | R-Stmt | Amendment Action | Earmarks | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet | EERE
• GOP lurches toward shutdown as Democrats vow they won’t be rolled – Hill

Wed, Sept 3, 2025:

• House Approps full committee approves Financial Services bill 35-28:  Text | Rpt | Summary | R-Stmt | Adopted Amendments | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet 
• Senate Approps Ranking Democrat Murray remarks on an FY 2026 short-term CR
• Vought defends ‘aggressively’ using rescissions, blasts GAO as ‘something that shouldn’t exist’ – Politico

Tues, Sept 2, 2025:

• House Labor-HHS-Ed subcommittee approved its bill:  Text | R-Summ | R-Stmt | D-Summ | D-Stmt | D-FactSheet
• House bill cuts HHS budget but excludes RFK Jr.’s reorganization, maintains NIH funding – Stat
• Johnson and Jeffries discussed the possibility of a shutdown-avoiding stopgap into November or December. – Politico
• Cole calls for short-term CR into November – Hill

See Chron for actions prior to the above date. 

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*In the 119th Congress, House Appropriations has renamed State-Foreign Ops:  National Security-State.