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该决议是旨在阻止政府停摆或以此作为对抗停摆筹码的多项举措之一
福克斯新闻 亚历克斯·米勒 报道
哥伦比亚广播公司《面对全国》节目主持人玛格丽特·布伦南就民主党中期选举的竞选信息质询民主党众议员泰德·刘，称民主党在国土安全部相关停摆争端中“落败”。
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随着更多政府停摆的阴云逼近，参议院即将就是否应在新一轮政府停摆期间向议员发放薪酬进行表决。
参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·瑟恩提出一项法案，将禁止议员在政府停摆期间领取薪酬。这一最后 resort 的政治手段如今在唐纳德·特朗普第二任期内已变得司空见惯。
来自路易斯安那州共和党人约翰·肯尼迪的这项决议直白明了：若再发生停摆，他和同僚将无法获得薪水。这是议员们为阻止政府停摆，或至少以此作为对抗停摆筹码而提出的多项决议和法案之一。
肯尼迪推动国会停摆期间停发薪酬计划
2026年4月2日，华盛顿特区，参议院以一致同意方式通过国土安全部拨款法案后，参议院多数党领袖约翰·瑟恩在国会大厦参议院会议厅外对媒体讲话。（安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社）
周一参议院复会时，瑟恩悄悄安排对该决议进行表决。目前议员们正准备为未来三年半的移民执法行动提供拨款——这是近期政府停摆导致他们不得不采取的途径。
当被问及对自己的提案获得表决机会有何感想时，肯尼迪表示是他推动瑟恩这么做的。
“他这么做了，我认为他是一位优秀的美国人，”肯尼迪说道。
在过去一年半里，政府停摆已成为常用手段，民主党将其作为谈判的筹码。仅在特朗普第二任期内，国会就四次濒临停摆。
共和党人担忧民主党将再次发动停摆，寻求永久终结政府停摆
当被问及对自己的提案获得表决机会有何感想时，路易斯安那州共和党人约翰·肯尼迪表示是他推动瑟恩这么做的。（伊丽莎白·弗朗茨/路透社）
这些停摆风波已经造成了美国历史上最长的全面停摆，以及最长的部分停摆。
民主党正以前所未有的方式将政府停摆当作政治大棒，这一现实让一些共和党人担心他们会在11月中期选举前再次发动停摆。
密苏里州共和党人埃里克·施密特指责参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默和民主党人是“立法恐怖分子”，认为他们会通过迫使政府停摆来获取政治利益。
民主党威胁停摆国土安全部，将冲击联邦紧急事务管理局、运输安全管理局，移民 funding 却不受影响
2025年10月21日，华盛顿特区，一场政府停摆期间，俄克拉荷马州共和党人詹姆斯·兰克福德与参议院共和党领袖在白宫玫瑰园外对媒体讲话。（艾莉森·罗伯特/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
施密特表示，停摆可能再次围绕移民和海关执法局（ICE）展开，也可能完全指向其他议题。
“可能会是其他议题，然后他们就会彻底停摆整个政府，我们绝不能，你知道，任由他们这么做，”施密特说道。“因此我认为我们应该制定相关计划，若他们想这么做，就让他们付出惨痛代价，因为美国民众会因此受苦。”
并非只有肯尼迪一名议员试图取消政府停摆这一选项。威斯康星州共和党人罗恩·约翰逊一直在推动他的《停摆公平法案》，该法案要求在政府停摆期间向在职联邦雇员发放薪酬。
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俄克拉荷马州共和党人詹姆斯·兰克福德也提出了自己的法案《防止政府停摆法案》，该法案将自动为政府提供两周拨款，直到国会达成全面拨款妥协方案。
“我们需要通过这项法案，这样我们就再也不会遭遇此类情况，”兰克福德对福克斯新闻数字频道说道。“我们会有分歧，这就是美国，但我们不应因为存在分歧就让联邦雇员、联邦项目停摆。让我们展开辩论，但要让政府持续运转。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
Senate weighs new, painful leverage tactic as fears of another government shutdown grow
May 12, 2026 9:56am EDT / Fox News
The resolution is one of several measures aimed at stopping shutdowns or creating leverage against them
By Alex Miller, Fox News
CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan challenged Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu on the party’s midterm election messaging, saying Democrats “lost” the shutdown fight over the Department of Homeland Security.
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The Senate will soon decide whether lawmakers should be paid during another government shutdown as the specter of more closures looms large.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., teed up a vote on a measure that would prevent senators from being paid during a government shutdown, a political option of last resort that has now become commonplace in the midst of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The resolution from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is straightforward: if there is another shutdown, he and his colleagues won’t get paid. It’s one of several resolutions and bills tossed around by lawmakers to find a way to stop shutdowns, or at least find a leverage point against them.
KENNEDY PUSHES PLAN TO HALT CONGRESS PAY DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Senate Majority Leader John Thune spoke to the media outside the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol after the Senate passed a Department of Homeland Security funding bill by unanimous consent on April 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Thune quietly set up the resolution for a vote when the Senate returned on Monday as lawmakers gear up to fund immigration operations for the next three and a half years — a route they’re having to take as a result of the most recent shutdown.
When asked how he felt about his measure getting a shot, Kennedy said he pushed Thune to do it.
“He did it, and I think he’s a fine American,” Kennedy said.
Shutdowns have become a common tool over the last year and a half that Democrats have turned to as a negotiating counterpoint. In Trump’s second term alone, Congress has been on the precipice of a closure four times.
REPUBLICANS EYE ENDING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS FOREVER OVER FEARS DEMS WILL DO IT AGAIN
When asked how he felt about his measure getting a shot, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he pushed Thune to do it.(Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
And those shutdown run-ins have yielded the longest full shutdown in history, and the longest partial closure ever.
That reality, where Democrats are using a shutdown like a political cudgel in a way lawmakers have never seen, has some Republicans worried that they’ll do it again before the midterm elections in November.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats of being “legislative terrorists” who view political opportunity in forcing another closure.
DEMS’ DHS SHUTDOWN THREAT WOULD HIT FEMA, TSA WHILE IMMIGRATION FUNDING REMAINS INTACT
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Senate GOP leaders spoke to the media outside the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 21, 2025, amid a government shutdown.(Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It could be over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE again, Schmitt said, or something else entirely.
“It’ll be something else, and then we’ll just shut the whole thing down, and we should not, you know, let them do that,” Schmitt said. “So I think we ought to have some plans in place to account for that, to make it painful for them if they want to do that, because the American people suffer on it.”
Kennedy isn’t the only lawmaker trying to take the option off the table. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has been pushing his Shutdown Fairness Act, which would require that working federal workers are paid during a shutdown.
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And Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., has his own legislation, the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act, which would automatically fund the government for two-week stretches until Congress landed on a compromise funding deal.
“We need to pass it so we never have a moment like this again,” Lankford told Fox News Digital. “We will have disagreements. It’s America, but we should not have federal workers, programs that stop because we’re having a disagreement. Let’s have the fight. But let’s keep going.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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