For the fifth time in a row, U.S. senators voted down both federal funding stopgap options, extending the ongoing government shutdown into its seventh day.
The vote Monday evening showed that most Democrats haven’t budged in their opposition to Republicans’ House-passed Continuing Resolution and are sticking to their own doomed spending bill instead.
Only Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.; and Angus King, I-Maine, (who caucuses with Democrats) voted for both the Democratic and Republican CRs. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted no on both.
Republicans’ CR would extend government funding for seven more weeks, buying time for lawmakers to finish properly funding the federal government through the 12 annual appropriations bills.
However, Democrats argue the bill would “