The Senate floor was open Thursday, but did not vote for Judaism’s most sacred day of the year, the holiday, Al Jazeera reported.
The next vote will be set on Friday, but the chances of success look slimmer.
Senate majority leader John Tune told reporters that a weekend vote was “impossible.” This means that the closure is likely to continue until next week.
Both Republican and Democrat spending bills have failed to reach the 60 out of 100 votes threshold as senators continue to vote primarily on party lines.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson told CBS News that the House is working on a new bill to present it to the Senate.
Republicans are also working to win individual lawmakers. They hold 53 Senate seats from 45 Democrats. Two independents in the Senate — Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont — usually vote for Democrats, but not always.
Like Nevada Sen. Katherine Cortez Mast, King and several Democrats voted in favor of the Republican contract earlier this week.
Trump also opposes long-standing practice of using closures to cut federal workforce and abandoning hundreds of thousands of workers.
He said he met with Las Vote, the Director of Management and Budget, the truthful socially.
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed Thursday that the cuts are “highly likely to be thousands.”
The White House has already frozen $26 billion in programs in democratic states such as California, New York and Illinois.
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