Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a bill to end the government shutdown for a sixth time, as the funding lapse enters its second week with little headway made toward a resolution.
Senators voted 54-45 on the GOP’s "clean" stopgap spending package that would fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to advance.
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Angus King (I-Maine) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) voted with Republicans, but for a fifth time no ...