What to know on Day 6 of the government shutdown:
- The stalemate over how to reopen the government is stretching into another week without a clear resolution in sight, as both parties trade blame for the shutdown that began on Oct. 1, 2025, and show little sign of moving from their positions.
- The Senate is expected to vote again Monday on dueling measures to fund the government and end a shutdown after the bills fell short of the 60 votes needed for a fourth time on Friday.
- Senate Republicans have been seeking to peel off Democratic support for a House-passed measure, which would fund the government until Nov. 21, while Democratic leaders have remained firm in their demand that a funding measure include an extension of health insurance tax credits.
- Speaker Mike Johnson canceled plans for the House to return to Washington this week, urging the Senate to pass the measure to fund the government before lawmakers can negotiate on the health care issue. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued Johnson is "not serious" about negotiations, and said a shutdown will only be resolved with a meeting between congressional leaders and the president.
Senate expected to vote again Monday on measures to fund government
The Senate is set to reconvene Monday afternoon after breaking for the weekend and is set to take votes on competing measures to fund the government after they fell short of the 60 votes needed for a fourth time last week.
The latest round of procedural votes on the dueling bills comes after they failed to pick up any new support during Friday's votes. Republicans are pushing for a House-passed measure to keep the government funded until Nov. 21, while Democrats have a separate measure to fund the government through October that would also extend health insurance tax credits, which has become Democrats' key demand in the funding fight.
Republicans have argued that negotiations on the tax credits, which expire at the end of the year, can happen once the government reopens, holding the repeat votes to pressure Democrats to support their measure to reopen the government.
With 53 Republicans in the upper chamber, support from Democrats is needed to advance a measure to fund the government. When the House-passed bill first received a vote in the Senate, just one Democrat crossed the aisle to support it. On the next vote, which came last week, two more senators crossed the aisle to back it. But since then, Republicans have been unable to peel off any additional support from Democrats in two more attempts.
CBS News poll finds few feel shutdown is worth it
Relatively few Americans say the Democrats' or Republicans' positions are worth a shutdown, according to a CBS News poll released Sunday.
For the Democrats, only half their rank and file think their party's positions are worth a shutdown, and even fewer Republicans say that of the GOP's positions.
Overall views and descriptors of the parties aren't positive ones. Each has underwater favorability ratings overall, with the Republicans getting slightly better ratings than the Democrats.
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Johnson, Schumer accuse each other of not being serious about negotiations
Congressional leaders traded blame for the government shutdown on Sunday as the stalemate over how to reopen the government stretched into another week without progress on negotiations.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "the House did its job" by passing a measure last month that would fund the government until Nov. 21, saying the reason House Republicans will remain in their districts this week is "because we did that."
"I pray that more Democrats in the Senate will come to their senses and do the right thing, and when they have the next opportunity on Monday to vote to open the government. I surely hope that they will," Johnson said.
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Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.
