{"id":175220,"date":"2025-10-17T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175220"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:38:09","slug":"senate-democrats-stopped-bill-to-pay-troops-and-fund-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175220","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats stopped bill to pay troops and fund the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A bill intended to get the troops paid beyond the recent payday was stopped in the Senate. The Republicans plus three Democrat senators voted to move the bill forward. However, the Democrats voted against the bill. The Democrats wanted a guarantee regarding the other spending bills that would be added to this bill.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Senate Republicans’ plan to reignite the government funding process was torpedoed by Senate Democrats, who blocked a bill that would pay the troops as the federal government entered Day 16 of the shutdown.<\/p>\n

The annual defense appropriations bill was blocked largely along party lines on Friday, with only a handful of Senate Democrats joining Republicans to advance the measure. While President Donald Trump made a temporary move to ensure that military service members were paid, that funding won’t last forever.<\/p>\n

The only Senate Democrats to cross the aisle were Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Lawmakers are now headed home after a short week in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

“I think the people in our military deserve to get paid,” Fetterman said. “That’s what my vote is about.”<\/p>\n

Had the bill advanced through its first procedural hurdle, lawmakers could have modified it to include other funding bills, a move that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., signaled he planned to make throughout the week.<\/p>\n

However, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats were unwilling to support the bill and argued that they wanted a guarantee on exactly which other spending bills would be added on to it down the line.<\/p>\n

“They need unanimous consent to add anything to the defense bill,” Schumer said before the vote. “They don’t have it.”<\/p>\n

Thune and Senate Republicans floated adding additional spending bills, like measures to fund Transportation, the Health and Human Services and Labor Departments, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce, but first needed to blast through the procedural hurdle to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miller, A. (2025, October 16). Senate Dems tank GOP plan to pay troops, fund Pentagon as shutdown hits Day 16. Fox News<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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