(Adnkronos) – The Senate is voting again today to end the shutdown, which has reached its 38th day, but Democrats do not seem willing to accept the offer from Republican leader John Thune, who has combined the stopgap, the bridge measure to fund the government until January, with a measure to guarantee veterans’ programs and food stamps for one year. “That’s what they were asking for,” said the Republican leader.
“Leader Thune is not doing himself any favors by not coming to the negotiating table,” replied Jacky Rosen, a senator considered to be in the group of Democrats who could vote for the passage of the measure, announcing that today she will vote no in the procedural vote, where at least 6 Democratic votes are needed to reach the qualified majority of 60. It is therefore expected that today, as in the 14 previous times since the beginning of the shutdown, this majority will not be reached.
Republicans can count on a group of centrist Democrats, Gary Peters, Jeanne Shaheen, and Angus King, who are looking for a way to end the shutdown, but in a meeting, the majority of Republicans determined that Thune’s proposal does not contain sufficient assurances that the White House and the Republican majority will then include the renewal of federal subsidies for Obamacare, which expire in January, in the negotiations for the actual spending bill.
