Senate Republicans block Democrats' 'filthy' counteroffer as shutdown deadline looms

The Democrats' bill, which was unveiled late Wednesday night, failed 47-45 along party lines. However, the GOP's CR will be voted on right after. The fate of that bill is in the air, given that Democrats have vowed to oppose it throughout the week.

The deadline to pass a government funding extension, known as a continuing resolution (CR), is Sept. 30, and lawmakers are expected to leave Washington, D.C., Friday night for a weeklong recess to observe the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.

Their plan would have kept the government open until Oct. 31, permanently extended expiring Obamacare premium subsidies, undoing the "big, beautiful bill's" Medicaid cuts, and clawing back the canceled funding for NPR and PBS.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., panned the bill and argued that the Republicans' legislation was everything Democrats had pushed when they controlled the Senate under former President Joe Biden.

"It's not clean - it's filthy," Thune said. "It's packed full of partisan policies and measures designed to appeal to Democrats' leftist base."

Democrats particularly want a deal on the expiring Obamacare subsidies, along with some assurances on future rescissions and impoundments.

"We'll sit down and negotiate, if they will sit down and negotiate," Schumer said. "We don't have a red line, but we know we have to help the American people."