10/08/2025

Senate Again Rejects Funding Bills as Government Shutdown Enters Second Week

Democrats demand any funding bill include healthcare protections

The Senate on Wednesday again rejected dueling Republican and Democratic funding proposals to end the government shutdown, which stretched into its eighth day with no hint of progress toward a resolution.

In a 54-45 vote, the Senate did not advance a GOP-led stopgap bill that would have funded the government through late November. An alternative funding bill backed by Democrats also failed in a 47-52 vote around 12:50 p.m. ET.

The same three senators who have voted with Republicans on previous votes — John Fetterman (D-PA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), as well as Angus King (I-ME), one of two independents in the caucus — did so again on Wednesday.

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