Congress is veering even closer to a government shutdown at midnight after a deadlocked Senate failed to pass a pair of dueling funding plans, fueling anxiety in Washington about how long a stalemate could last.
In a sign of the deepening division between the parties, Senate Democrats blocked Republican’s House-passed stopgap bill, which would extend current funding levels for seven weeks – but without their demand on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
The GOP stopgap bill failed by a vote of 55 to 45. GOP Sen. Rand Paul voted against the bill, while Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto and independent Sen. Angus King voted for it.
And in a vote just before, a Democratic proposal that would fund the government and extend those subsidies, which are set to expire later this year, also failed to garner the needed support.
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