Two funding bills that could end the federal government shutdown failed to pass in Senate votes for the seventh time on Thursday.

The votes on dueling Republican and Democratic stop-gap funding proposals came on the ninth day of the shutdown, and as fallout from the crisis spread.

The IRS on Wednesday said that it was furloughing nearly half of its workforce because of the lack of funding by Congress.

Lawmakers showed no indication that they are open to yielding on their respective party's demands.

The Senate voted against the GOP-backed bill, which would fund the government through Nov. 21, in a 54-45 vote .

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Nevada's Catherine Cortez Masto, as well as Angus King of Maine, one of two independents in the Democratic

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