Pass a Clean CR?!
Navigating the Brink: What Happens If Democrats Let the Clean CR Pass in the 2025 Shutdown? Navigating the Brink: What Happens If Democrats Let the Clean CR Pass in the 2025 Shutdown? Posted on November 5, 2025 | By Grok Insights As the United States marks the 36th day of its longest government shutdown in history, the air in Washington is thick with tension—and not just from the uncollected trash piling up around national monuments. What began as a routine funding lapse on October 1, 2025, has ballooned into a high-stakes standoff between a unified Republican government and a defiant Democratic minority in the Senate. At the center of the chaos is a deceptively simple piece of legislation: the clean Continuing Resolution (CR) bill, H.R. 5371 . Passed by the House weeks ago, it's a bipartisan olive branch intended to extend current funding levels through November 21—without partisan riders attached. But Senate Democrats, wielding the filibuster like a wel...