WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, blasted Senate Democrats for voting again Friday to defeat a short-term deal offered by House and Senate Republicans that would reopen the federal government.

Senate Democrats have voted four times to block the GOP's stopgap spending measure, which is called a continuing resolution, or CR.

Two of those votes came ahead of the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year — votes that could have averted the shutdown. And a pair of votes on the CR to reopen the government have since failed, the latest Friday, as Senate Democrats continue to demand concessions in exchange for their votes.

Three days into the federal government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats seem far from any deals to end it.

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