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Watch: Senate again votes on ending government shutdown

Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) talks to reporters as heads back to office after speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

The Senate late Monday voted again on ending the government shutdown, now in its 20th day.

The latest attempt to reopen the government comes as some Senate Democrats skeptical about their leadership’s hard-line stance against reopening the federal government privately acknowledge they fear getting “hammered” by their liberal base if they vote for a Republican funding bill.

Watch a replay of coverage of the vote, which was scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. EDT, in the video player above

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