Live updates: Senate GOP pressures Dems with focus on defense funding

The Senate volition pivot Thursday from efforts to reopen the authorities to a ballot connected whether to beforehand an $852 cardinal defence appropriations bill. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) scheduled the ballot successful an effort to enactment Democrats connected the grounds if they artifact the measure, arsenic Republicans spotlight how the shutdown is impacting nationalist security. It besides comes…