The Senate again rejected two competing party bills to fund the government on the evening of Oct. 6 as a shutdown standoff between the two major parties nears its seventh day.
The upper chamber voted down the Democrats’ government funding bill, which would alter health care provisions changed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in a 45–50 vote. Republicans’ proposed short-term extension of funding—at the existing level before the shutdown—also failed again in a 52–42 vote.
