The Senate on Monday pushed the government shutdown to the one-week mark as Democrats blocked the GOP's "clean" stopgap funding bill from advancing for a fifth time.
Senators voted 52-42 on the House-passed bill, which needed 60 votes to advance and would have funded the government at Biden-era spending levels until late November. The tally has remained virtually unchanged, other than absences, since the shutdown started last Wednesday.
The trio of Sens. Catherine...