Senate Democrats are blocking a defense bill that would pay for troops amid the shutdown

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The annual defense appropriations bill was largely blocked along party lines on Friday, with Senate Democrats rallying Republicans to advance the measure. While President Donald Trump has made a temporary move to ensure that members of the military are paid, that money will not last forever.

If the payer had progressed with their first procedural problem, the lawmakers may have changed it to include other financial bills, to move the main leader John tune, Rs.d.., he signed that he planned to do all week.

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However, senate minity leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Ye.

“They need permission to agree to add anything to the Defense Bill,” said Shubhele before the vote. “They don’t have any.”

The tune and senate Republicans floated to add additional spending costs, such as measures to support transportation, health services and human services, housing and urban development, and commerce, but first it is necessary to explode with the process fund to do so.

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The leader of the Senate, John tune holds a copy of the continuing deception of the resolution as he speaks with us next to the speaker of the house Mike Johnson during a press conference in Washington, Oct. 3, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“If they want to stop the defense bill, I don’t think it’s very good optics for them, obviously,” Thune said.

Part of the Senate Democrats’ Resistance to this Bill is united in the whole area against the resolution of the continuation of the house (CR) to reopen the Government, which prevented it until now.

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As their argument with increasing funding for Obamacare, they want guarantees on what the Republicans will communicate in the bill – a position that was riding on a lack of complete trust between the parties that has torn the division of the most open structures this year.

“We don’t have an agreement on anything,” Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conc. “So obviously we can’t. They can’t negotiate anymore.”

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Sen. Mark Kelly, D-ARIZ., similarly argued that there is no bipartisan agreement on what the package should look like.

“We have to focus on fixing these health care premiums and reopening the government,” he said. “And, you know, bringing in one bill without the others is something we can do in general.”