Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a bill to end the government shutdown for a sixth time, as the funding lapse enters its second week with little headway made toward a resolution.

Senators voted 54-45 on the GOP’s "clean" stopgap spending package that would fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to advance.

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Angus King (I-Maine) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) voted with Republicans, but for a fifth time no other members of the Democratic caucus joined them.

King on Wednesday said he would keep voting for the GOP stopgap bill out of fear for the power that the White House could exert in a shutdown.

"The power that the president and OMB and Vought and Miller are exercising under the shutdown is a real threat to our country so I

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