<p>On Friday, the GOP-led Senate passed a stopgap bill to stave off a partial government shutdown at the stroke of midnight, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump to sign into law after Democrats gave up their last chance to block it.</p>
<p>The final vote was <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00133.htm#position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">54-46</a> with Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Angus King (I-ME) joining with all but one Republican in supporting the measure. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was the <a href="https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1899113680848961888" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sole</a> Republican to band with the rest of the Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in opposing the bill.</p>
<p>A simple majority was all that was needed for final passage. There was more drama earlier with a vote to invoke cloture, which required a three-fifths majority — or 60 votes — to prevail. That <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did happen</a> via a 62-38 vote earlier on Friday after Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he would not vote for a shutdown and stirred up some blowback from members of his own party.</p>
<p>In order to proceed to a final vote, senators had reached a deal in which members would vote on a few <a href="https://x.com/SenatePPG/status/1900647447728124085" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amendments</a> from Democrats and Paul. All of them failed to pass. However, the upper chamber did pass a stand-alone bill to <a href="https://x.com/Meagan_Flynn/status/1900645749387378839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protect</a> roughly $1.1 billion in funding for Washington, D.C., that the continuing resolution would remove.</p>
<p>Paul&#8217;s offering, which sought to reduce appropriations for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), failed in a 27-37 vote. The Kentucky Republican had said his amendment would <a href="https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/1900645923778158702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">codify</a> the cuts made by the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort overseen by Elon Musk.</p>
<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said in a <a href="https://x.com/SenMullin/status/1900689933985062976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X that Paul&#8217;s amendment &#8220;was well-intentioned, but adopting it would immediately result in a shutdown. Why? It would require the House to re-consider the bill. President Trump doesn&#8217;t want a shutdown. We&#8217;re moving forward on the DOGE Act and MAGA agenda for FY26.&#8221;</p>
<p>The House narrowly passed the 99-page <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/bill-text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing resolution</a> — which provides funding to various federal agencies and programs through September 30 — earlier this week. Trump has already endorsed the funding patch as a means to keep the government running and later get to his domestic agenda priorities in national defense, border security, and tax cuts.</p>

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