Live updates: Dems, GOP hold their ground on shutdown as Senate funding bills fail again

LIVE Video: Senate set to ballot connected backing bills arsenic shutdown goes into effect

The Senate connected Wednesday again took up 2 bills that would money the government, and the results mirrored Tuesday's votes connected the aforesaid legislation, which triggered the shutdown astatine midnight.

When volition the shutdown end? That's anyone's guess.

"This could've been avoided," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) connected Wednesday greeting at a property conference with GOP leaders from some House and Senate.

Here's what other to cognize astir the shutdown:

• — Are nationalist parks open during the shutdown?
• — Does it impact pupil indebtedness borrowers oregon the FAFSA?
• — Did Democrats ballot for the GOP backing bill?

President Trump's medication has threatened wide firings and potential programme cuts if backing expired. Labor unions connected Tuesday filed suit to effort to forestall occupation actions beyond accepted furloughs, calling the menace "not lone amerciable – it’s immoral and unconscionable."

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