The U.S. Senate voted again on Wednesday, the first day of a government shutdown, on government funding bills that mirror the failed votes taken on Tuesday.
Senate Democrats blocked the House-passed Clean Resolution on Wednesday.
The measure, which needed 60 votes to advance, failed 55-45.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team, joined Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, in voting for the GOP funding proposal.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is increasingly drawing heat from both sides of the aisle for his refusal to back a clean continuing resolution bill to keep the government funded into November. Continues…