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• Dueling plans to pay feds on-time fail in Senate, though a bipartisan path forward appears - October 23, 2025

• By Erich Wagner and Eric Katz, Government Executive

  Senate Democrats and Republicans each defeated the other party’s plan to pay at least some federal employees on time amid the ongoing government shutdown, though both sides appeared to open the door to bipartisan negotiations on the issue.
  
  The Senate voted 54-45 on a motion to begin floor consideration of legislation unveiled earlier this week by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., that would immediately pay all “excepted” employees who are forced to work during the appropriations lapse, as defined by the Office of Personnel Management. The measure needed 60 votes to advance; Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, both D-Ga., voted in favor of the motion.

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