WASHINGTON—The Senate on Sept. 19 failed to advance a House-passed bill to fund the government until Nov. 21, less than two weeks before a shutdown deadline.
The Senate failed to get 60 votes to overcome a filibuster on the bill. The vote was 44-48.
Senate Fails to Advance Stopgap Funding Bill as Shutdown Deadline Nears
Senate Republicans will try again to advance the measure before government funding is due to expire at the end of the September.
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Sept. 9, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
