A follow up to #1243244 Feel free to ask questions below

I have been waiting to see what the Senate would do and well it is all but over for tonight now. As of this writing two Dems had voted yes with Sen. Fetterman, who had voted yes last week, and Sen. Cortez Mastro voting with the Republicans. Due to the nature of how the Senate works it is likely Senate Majority Leader Thune will vote against it at the last minute. This is because by doing so he is able to bring the bill up for another vote again.

I have heard a couple of different plans for the Senate. One is that they will vote again tomorrow, skip Thursday in observation of Yom Kippur and then vote again Friday and even Saturday. The other is that they will vote every two days. This second one doesnt track well just because Thursday is Yom Kippur and if you Start the every two days on Friday then you hit Sunday as well. Needless to say whatever the path is chosen the Senate is just going to vote on the same stuff over and over again. This is pretty common and as services close down and people realize how this is affecting their lives it will be clear that the Senate Dems are the ones preventing the government from being funded.

On the House side.... not much to report at all. The majority of Republican's are still in their districts while Democrats came back because there were votes scheduled initially for the House this week but the House closed up shop to force the Senate Dems into a corner. If the Senate passes by some act of God a bill to fund the government the House takes either 48 or 72 hours for Members to return to DC. I am currently drawing a blank on what it is at the moment. The time is because of Alaska and I want to say its Idaho.... those Members have limited flight options and those Members also do not fly private they fly like normal people on Commercial.

There was a pretty funny thing that happened and that was Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) came to DC with the Democrats expecting to be sworn in. However, since the House is out of session that was not going to happen and now Democrats are upset she will have to wait until next week. It was well known and done with plenty of time to know that she would not be sworn in this week but nonetheless it is something that Democrats are calling foul on while Nancy Pelosi did the same thing so its not a surprising thing and both sides do the same thing.

House Dems are meeting tomorrow at 10:00 am something I can only imagine is to try and figure out the new strategy for moving forward. Due to the bill passing the House already there isnt really anything they can do. Sure an attempt can be made to keep holding press conferences but that is a well you can only go to so many times before they lose all effectiveness.

UPDATE: Right before I hit publish for this I saw a third Dem had swung to a Yay with Angus King an Independent that caucuses with the Democrats voting in favor. I have to admit already swinging three Dems is pretty impressive. Maybe the Senate will pass this by the end of the week.... It would be a hell of a collapse by the Senate Dems if they dont at least push this out until the start of next week. It would be a prime example of being all bark and no bite if they break to soon. Time is against them though and it not going to get any better.

UPDATE TWO: Senate vote for the CR officially failed. Government shutdown at midnight.