Unfortunately, the U.S. government was shut down due to a lapse in funding as the 2026 fiscal year (FY) began on Oct. 1.
Although the U.S. House had passed a temporary spending bill that would have kept the government open, Democratic minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. rallied his fellow Democrats to defeat the bill in the Senate.
To their credit, three senators who caucus with Democrats – Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Angus King, I-Maine, voted with Senate Republicans to keep the government open. The only GOP senator to vote no for the spending bill was Rand Paul, R-Ky. (See: Which Democrats Broke Ranks to Fund the Government).
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