The Senate on Tuesday spurned a Democratic stopgap spending bill, putting lawmakers a step closer to a government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline.

Lawmakers voted along party lines, 47-53, on advancing the package, which includes an extension of government funding and about $1 trillion in health care provisions. It needed 60 votes to advance.

The vote came ahead of a second planned vote on the GOP’s House-passed “clean” continuing resolution, which is also not expected to advance.

The Democrats' alternative bill, which they rolled out two weeks ago, would permanently extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that are set to expire at year’s end, undo the GOP’s Medicaid cuts implemented in the “big, beautiful bill” over the summer, and restore the already allocated

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