Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about the Senate rejecting both plans for a government funding stopgap.

So, the government is set to begin a shutdown on October 1 at 1201 a.m.

And on Friday, the House passed the Republican version of the

continuing resolution. And then the Senate rejected both the Republican and Democratic plans

for keeping the government open. Contrary to Trump's vote count math of quote, we have to get

Republican votes, that's all.

A simple majority doesn't pass things in the Senate. You need 60 votes. Turns out it doesn't matter,

because neither plan even achieved 51 votes, because a lot of senators knew Trump was wrong

about what was needed and didn't even

bother to show up. The Republican plan was rejected by a vote of 44 to 48. Democrat Senator John

Federman of Pennsylvania voted in favor of it. Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against it.

The Democratic plan also failed to move forward. That vote was 47 to 45, along party lines.

The Republican bill would have kept the government open until November 21st at current spending levels.

The Democratic plan would have kept the government open through October 31st.

It has policy add-ons like making the Affordable Care Act credits permanent.

Those are currently set to expire at the end of the year, and will send

health insurance costs through the roof for millions of Americans. It would have reversed

Trump's Medicaid cuts that were in the one big beautiful bill. It would have restored public

broadcasting funding, as well as lifting the freeze on foreign aid.

So, it doesn't look like the Democratic Party is going to stick with the easily marketable

items, like just the health care items, which is probably a mistake. But they've managed to

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