"The Senate rejected two funding stopgaps, and the House will not return before the deadline."
"The Senate rejected dueling funding bills from Democrats and Republicans on Friday afternoon, pushing Congress to the brink of a shutdown with no deal in sight.
Senate Republicans stuck together to defeat the Democratic funding patch, which includes hundreds of billions of dollars for health care programs and would have restored or protected some energy and climate funding. The vote was 47-45, with 60 affirmative votes needed for passage.
Then, Senate Democrats voted to block the Republicans’ “clean” seven-week funding stopgap, which had passed out of the House about two hours earlier on a 217-212 vote, mostly along party lines. The Senate vote on the GOP plan was 44-48."
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