Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted almost in unison to defeat a House-passed bill to fund government through Nov. 21, putting Washington on the brink of a government shutdown that could last for days or even weeks.

Democrats are jittery about how the likely shutdown will play out over the next several days after President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he would take “irreversible” actions to gut their priorities during a shutdown.

But they emerged from a long lunch meeting Tuesday with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) resolved to defeat the GOP-crafted funding bill, which they had previously rejected on Sept. 19.

The House measure needed 60 votes to pass, and it fell five votes short. Government funding expires at midnight, at which point a shutdown will begi

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