{"id":12937,"date":"2025-09-22T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:23:58","slug":"5-things-to-watch-as-a-shutdown-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12937","title":{"rendered":"5 things to watch as a shutdown looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-1.jpg 753w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress is moving head-first toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, including a \u201cclean\u201d one proposed by the GOP to keep the lights on for seven weeks while appropriators hammer out a longer-term deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers will be out of town for the next week before returning on the eve of the deadline, raising questions about whether there\u2019s any chance they can avoid a shutdown when they return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are five things to watch in the coming days as the shutdown deadline looms for lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How long will Democrats hold out?<br>Democrats have made it abundantly clear they have zero interest in backing the GOP\u2019s \u201cclean\u201d stopgap bill without alterations on a number of fronts \u2014 almost all of which Republicans have said are nonstarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is whether they\u2019ll hold the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump: Charlie Kirk&#8217;s Murder Was An Attack On America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats are demanding that deal at least included talks on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) shocked his party by backing the GOP-led spending bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is moving head-first toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, including a \u201cclean\u201d one proposed by the GOP to keep the lights on for seven weeks while appropriators hammer out a longer-term deal. 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