WASHINGTON - Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions.

If government funding legislation isn’t passed by Congress and signed by Trump on Tuesday night, many government offices across the nation will be temporarily shuttered, and nonexempt federal employees will be furloughed, adding to the strain on workers and the nation’s economy.

Here's the latest on the effort to avoid a government shutdown:

Senate roll call is underway on government funding bill

6:45 p.m. ET The Senate is voting — one more time — on a temporary bill to fund the government and avert a federal shutdown.

But the outcome may be no different than the last time.

Democrats a

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