Thune: Senate GOP will ‘hold’ budget reconciliation bill as backup plan to avoid shutdown

Thune to Take the Blame for the Failure of Trump’s Agenda

John Thune to take the blame for the failure of Trump’s agenda. The House keeps passing legislation Trump wants, but it can’t get through the Senate. That’s making the majority leader a target for MAGA wrath.

Senate Feeling Good About Avoiding Shutdown

“Senators on both sides of the aisle are quietly hopeful about avoiding a third government shutdown this year,” Axios reports. “Time is short, patience is wearing thin and neither party wants to head into the campaign’s final sprint under the cloud of a funding lapse.”

House and Senate take different paths to avoid shutdown before midterms

Washington (CBS NEWS) — According to CBS News, another deadline to fund the government is looming this fall in Congress, with members fresh off a series of shutdown fights that have left them eager to avoid another costly impasse ahead of the midterm elections. But as lawmakers warn about the coming funding cliff, they have yet to agree on a path forward. Current funding expires at the end of the fiscal year on October 1. Last week, as the House…

What Is John Thune Doing?

A critical take on John Thune's leadership failures amid GOP struggles and government shutdown risks.

Government shutdown fight heads to familiar place in Senate

Majority Leader John Thune has called on his colleagues to pass a bill that would extend government funding past the November midterm elections.

Thune: Senate GOP will ‘hold’ budget reconciliation bill as backup plan to avoid shutdown

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced on Tuesday that Senate Republicans will “hold” any budget reconciliation framework passed by the House to use as a potential back-up plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September. Thune told reporters that Senate Republicans will not act immediately on any budget resolution passed by…