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).
Nearly all Democrats voted to reject a House-passed plan that would have kept federal spending mostly at current levels through 21 November, and bolstered security for the executive branch officials, the supreme court, judges and members of Congress in the wake of the assassination of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.
Here’s how each US senator voted on the Republican plan.
