Eric McDaniel
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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set of circumstances as they try and keep the plates spinning.
an extension of government funding through the midterms to December 4th, hopefully avoiding another shutdown.
There were, of course, two record shutdowns so far this congressional term and three new congressional stock trading rules tied also to an unrelated voter ID measure.
Bills generally need 60 votes in order to pass in the Senate, and that means that two of these, which lack substantial Democratic support, are dead on arrival there.
Even Democratic military boosters have spoken out against the trillion-dollar National Defense Authorization Act, usually a bipartisan success story and this time waylaid by recent American service member deaths and Trump's war on Iran.
And House Republicans attached a voter ID bill to their stock trading restrictions, restrictions that don't require members to shed their personal financial stakes in publicly traded companies.
Both policies concern Democrats.
Senate Republicans could pass the Iran and farm and election package on their own, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he's holding that bill back for other reasons.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, the Capitol.
Bills generally need 60 votes in order to pass in the Senate, and that means that two of these, which lack substantial Democratic support, are dead on arrival there.
Even Democratic military boosters have spoken out against the trillion-dollar National Defense Authorization Act, usually a bipartisan success story and this time waylaid by recent American service member deaths in Trump's war on Iran.
And House Republicans attached a voter ID bill to their stock trading restrictions, restrictions that don't require members to shed their personal financial stakes in publicly traded companies.
Both policies concern Democrats.
Senate Republicans could pass the Iran and farm and election package on their own, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he's holding that bill back for other reasons.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, the Capitol.
Republicans want to avoid a third government shutdown, this one coming just ahead of the midterm elections.
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Democrats have forced two record-breaking shutdowns since President Trump began his second term, the first over federal subsidies for health insurance plans and the second over funding for the president's immigration enforcement agenda after federal personnel killed Americans in Minnesota earlier this year.
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Leader Thune says he'll work on a different version of the funding extension in order to attract needed support from Senate Democrats.
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If that doesn't pan out, he has a plan to pass a funding extension on a party-line vote, avoiding the chamber's typical 60-vote threshold using a parliamentary quirk known as reconciliation.
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Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
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