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Senate Rejects Funding Plan to Reopen Government

Lawmakers have failed to reach a bipartisan deal to fund the government, which went into shutdown on Wednesday.
Senate Rejects Funding Plan to Reopen Government
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Sept. 29, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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WASHINGTON—Hours into a government shutdown, the Senate again blocked a pair of rival stopgap bills to fund the government, amid a partisan standoff that shows no signs of easing.

The federal government shut down at the start of Oct. 1 after Congress failed to pass a Republican plan to fund operations through Nov. 21.

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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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.
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