Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to block a Senate Democratic proposal to fund the federal government through Oct. 31, to permanently extend enhanced health insurance premium subsidies that are due to expire in December, and to restore nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding cuts.

Republicans defeated a procedural motion to advance the legislation after voting against the bill itself Tuesday.

The measure failed by a vote of 47-53.

The Senate is also set to hold a procedural vote Wednesday on the GOP House-passed "clean" funding bill. That legislation also failed Tuesday.

The result of the vote was hardly in doubt as Senate Republicans have consistently criticized the bill as a “laundry list” of liberal priorities that would add $1.5 trillion to the deficit.

Senate Majority Leader Joh

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