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The US Senate on Tuesday failed for the 14th time to advance a House-passed short-term government funding bill, ensuring that the federal shutdown will become the longest in American history.

The measure, backed by Republicans, would have kept government spending at current levels through November 21. However, the procedural motion to take up the bill, which required 60 votes to move forward, failed 54–44, extending the funding impasse to 35 days.

“We’re not asking for anything radical," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said. “Lowering people’s healthcare costs is the definition of common sense."

As in earlier rounds, Democratic Senators Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, along with Independent Angus King of Maine, voted t

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