Government Shutdown 2025 When Will Senate Vote. The us senate late wednesday passed a stopgap bill to keep the government open, averting a shutdown for now while setting up a contentious fight over funding in the new. With just hours to spare, the house and senate passed a bipartisan bill to avert a government shutdown, and president biden signed it before the midnight deadline.

The senate has passed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills that pushes any new threats of a government shutdown into the fall. But negotiators are keeping their colleagues guessing about how.