Senate Democrats stopped bill to pay troops and fund the Pentagon
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.
From Fox News:
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.
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.
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.
“I think the people in our military deserve to get paid,” Fetterman said. “That’s what my vote is about.”
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.
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.
“They need unanimous consent to add anything to the defense bill,” Schumer said before the vote. “They don’t have it.”
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.
Additional Reading:
Miller, A. (2025, October 16). Senate Dems tank GOP plan to pay troops, fund Pentagon as shutdown hits Day 16. Fox News. Link.
Category: Government Incompetence, Military issues
A picture is worth a thousand words…
23:26 in Yokohama, and Hack Stone is patiently waiting on the Weekend Open Thread to drop.
I have my VPN set to Osaka and I am waiting too. May the best man win, Hack.
P.S. How is Yokohama?
Lovely weather. Hack Stone went out and stimulated the local economy by consuming a few draft Asahi’s and some appetizers from a local establishment. Hack Stone will be spending his Saturday in Yokohama by participating in a “No Kings Protest”, which should be embraced by the local population, since they have an Emperor.
Yeah, that’ll likely be well received by the Japanese *grin*
I like how the Canucks and Brits that joined in the last No Kings Protest had to change their signs to “No Tyrants.” LOL
Aaaand I lost. 🫤
Hack, you missed it. The WOT drops on Friday; you’re across the International Date Line so it’s Saturday in your neck of the space-time continuum.
Not quite. I have a VPN on my phone and computer, being set to Japan and good ol’ US of A respectfully. I’m still good.
Have a plate of toro sashimi for me
Jackasses!!!
Surely you can come up with a more descriptive term. Douche nozzle works too.
I could, Odie. But I’m currently sick. So, therefore, I’m lazier with my vocabulary than I normally am.
Hope you get well quickly AmHi!
Thanks, Gray!
Dicks takes same effort but less letters.😉
Not anymore. They transitioned to Jennys.
America needs to to immediately fund pastry classes for Haitian male prostitutes.
We need homeless vets going door to door to help
fund our military. I remember when UNICEF tried to nudge
in on the Halloween candy tradition. I just might dig out my
class A uniform this year. When I was a kid my dad had me
dressed in his WW2 uniform.
“(W)as blocked largely along party lines…” Had it been all democrats and only 3 republicans voting for passage, the press would say that it had “bipartisan” support.”
Hunter was all about the party lines
((snorrrrrttt))
Right off a hooker’s arse!
Maybe he was blowing it up a hooker’s ass too!
Testing. Testing. I normally go to TAH with my phone.
Great! It worked!
Fetterman isn’t a real Democrat. The brain has a neuroplasticity to it that can sometimes improve brain function after a stroke. This is probably what happened to him.
As always, the red states bear the larger burden of serving and protecting the country so their senators do not care. Nevada and New Hampshire are among the exceptions.
https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/sites/default/files/papers/Savell-McMahon-Troop-Numbers-By-State.pdf
Another piece of evidence that the (D)emon-rats hate the USA, the Military, Christians, Western Civilization and that we unwashed deplorables have our freedom
Democrats are banking on:
Them again?
I wonder how the people paid to protect them like protecting them for free? You know they aren’t writing the check for their personal protection.
I hope his security detail is as good as the that Trump had in Pennsylvania.
LET THE DONKEY DIE!
And launch the remains at the survivors: Psych Warfare.
If you were a news photographer covering a press conference at which Chuckie Schumer suffered a sudden heart attack, and you were faced with deciding between taking a potentially Pulitzer Prize winning photo or performing CPR, what f-Stop would you use?
I’m sure that with that news Commissar is “otherwise occupied” trying to “rub one out” in celibration.
Putting aside all of his nuttiness, it genuinely blows my mind that a former commissioned officer would openly advocate for policies that directly fuck currently serving troops.
Just proves he wasn’t about protecting or watching out for those he was in charge of.
It’s obvious to me that he must have been a “Ticket-Puncher” who was only out for himself.!
I believe he was the sort of officer who checked the pepper shakers for fly specs. The sort that would pull out a tech order to prove you had done the job wrong and would get angry at you when you pointed out he had referenced the tech order for a completely different piece of equipment. The sort who was first in line to impress the General while the troops were put on 12 hour shifts to do the work that impressed the General got no mention. The sort, after you told him the truth, wouldn’t supply lubricant for the BOHICA…
Ham-ass does it again, how ’bout them bastards?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/hamas-carries-public-executions-just-145500101.html
No surprise to me, they’re filthy animals who are only out for themselves. Why not let the lefty protestors from hyere in the Staters volunteer to go there and assist them, then see what happens?