Senate votes against funding bills again

the Senate On Wednesday he again refused a duel Republican and Democrat Finance Proposals for termination Government shutdownwhich extended to its eighth day without any sign of progress towards a solution.

In a 54-45 vote, the Senate did not advance a GOP-led stopgap bill that would have funded the government until late November. A Democratic-backed replacement funding bill also failed in a 47-52 vote at about 12:50 p.m. ET.

The same three senators from the Democratic caucus who voted with Republicans in previous votes — John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Katherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, as well as Angus King of Maine, one of two independents in the caucus — did so again on Wednesday.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., again voted with Democrats to oppose the GOP measure. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, did not vote.

Competing temporary loopholes had already failed to pass in five previous votes.

Leaders of both parties blame each other for the shutdown that began on October 1.

Republicans, who have narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress, want a short-term measure that would resume US government funding at current levels until November 21.

The House GOP bill also includes funding to provide additional security for lawmakers after the election The assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The Democratic alternative includes more than $1 trillion in additional funding for health care, including an extension of enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire at the end of this year.

“Republicans are shutting down the government because they refuse to fix and address America’s health care crisis,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the vote began.

Sin. Suzanne CollinsR-Maine, floated a possible way out of the shutdown that would include GOP commitments on Deal related to enhancing tax credits for Obamacare, Punchbowl News reported.

But her proposal — which suggests a conversation about extending the Affordable Care Act after the government reopens — did not sway any Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday.

Republicans currently need about eight votes from senators in the Democratic caucus to pass the short-term funding measure to overcome the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster rules.

president Donald Trump His fellow Republicans have largely refused to negotiate with Democrats, whom they accuse of holding the government hostage.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, on the chamber floor after Schumer, said the Democrats’ funding proposal “does not pass here, it does not pass in the House, and the president will not sign it into law.”

The White House also warned that federal employees would be fired, and raised the possibility that furloughed employees could be deprived of their wages, if the shutdown lasts longer.

But House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Los Angeles, said Wednesday he agrees that federal law requires furloughed workers to be paid when they return to work.

— CNBC Lillian Rizzo She contributed to this report.