Senators push weekend talks as shutdown deepens | JQJO

On the 37th day of the shutdown, with flight disruptions looming, senators from both parties prepared for a weekend session as Majority Leader John Thune moved to force another vote on a House stopgap. His plan would fund the government into January and advance three bipartisan bills for agriculture, military construction and legislative agencies, but it omits Democrats’ key demand to extend expiring federal health insurance tax credits. Democrats, buoyed by election wins yet wary of prolonging the crisis, debated leverage, while Speaker Mike Johnson refused to promise a House vote on the subsidies.