Back on Capitol Hill, the Senate is voting right now on a Democratic plan to fund the federal government. That is expected to fail, as is the following vote, which will be put on the floor by the Republican majority. That means the government shutdown will certainly continue through the weekend and possibly into next week.Joining us now, Democratic Senator from New Mexico, Martin Heinrich. And Senator, you know, the Republican bill will be up or the Republican measure to to fund the government will now be u ...

the government shutdown day three uh with votes expected this afternoon. Emily Wilkins joins us now from Washington. Good morning. >> Good morning, Joe.Yeah, look, at this point there is no clear answer on how this government shutdown is going to end, but we are seeing a potential off-ramp that could be emerging, a bipartisan path forward on extending some of those tax credits for health care premiums. Now, right now, of course, those enhanced credits, they're set to expire at the end of the year. And most ...

And I want to bring in Democratic Congressman Glenn Ivy of Maryland. He's a member of the Appropriations Committee. Congressman, the ball is in the Senate's court right now because Republicans in the House already passed what they're calling a clean continuing resolution.In fact, that's something that we did hear from uh the majority leader in the Senate Thoon mentioned. He said it a vacuum this would get all Democrat support because it's clean. It doesn't have like, you know, policy agenda priorities of Re ...