WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown entered its 35th day, tying the record for the longest in U.S. history, the Senate is set to hold its 15th vote on a stopgap federal funding bill Tuesday.
But it isn’t likely to pass, even as 42 million low-income Americans miss their nutrition assistance payments and hundreds of thousands of federal workers go without pay.
“Democrats are going to keep pushing to get these premium tax credits extended,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “We’re not asking for anything radical. Lowering people’s health care costs is the definition of common sense and what Americans want.”
Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a Republican bill to temporarily fund the government through Nov. 21 over demands that it inc

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