Both New Hampshire U.S. senators voted yet again on Monday to keep the federal government shutdown, using the Senate’s filibuster rule to block a continuing resolution that would maintain current spending.

Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen say that forcing Republicans to agree to a side deal keeping taxpayer-funded Obamacare subsidies is more important than keeping the government open.

At a healthcare roundtable in Newmarket on Monday, Hassan told attendees, according to the Portsmouth Herald , that “though a government shutdown hurts federal workers, the public and the economy, Hassan said Democrats’ fight in Washington was worth it.”

“It’s not good to have the government closed,” Hassan said. “But it also is not good to have health care premiums for so many of our friends and n

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