BURSTRepublicans and Democrats vote on each party’s stopgap funding proposal – both measures needed 60 votes to pass
With a midnight deadline approaching, the Senate on Tuesday again rejected a Republican plan to keep federal funding flowing and avert a government shutdown.
In a pair of back-to-back votes, each party mostly united to block the other’s stopgap funding proposal, all but ensuring a partial shutdown for the first time in nearly seven years. Both measures needed 60 votes to pass.
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