With a midnight deadline approaching, the Senate on Tuesday again rejected a Republican plan to keep federal funding flowing and avert a government shutdown.
In a pair of back-to-back votes, each party mostly united to block the other’s stopgap funding proposal, all but ensuring a partial shutdown for the first time in nearly seven years. Both measures needed 60 votes to pass.
Republicans united against a plan offered by Democrats to fund the government through the end of October, that would have also reversed the Medicaid cuts enacted as part of Donald Trump’s so-called “big beautiful bill” this summer and extend healthcare subsidies that make health insurance premiums more affordable for low- and middle-income people who purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
