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John Thune CALLS OUT Democrats EXCUSES for refusing to forgo pay during shutdown

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The Senate voted down the GOP-led stopgap spending bill for a 12th time on Wednesday.

Senators voted 54-46 on the bill, which would fund the government through Nov. 21. Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine broke ranks to vote to advance the bill.

Republicans are expected to bring the bill back up for another vote as soon as Thursday as the shutdown rolls on without an end in sight. They will also force a vote Thursday on Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) proposal to pay some federal workers and active duty members of the military.

Led by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrats seized the Senate floor on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump’s presidency amid the government shutdown and push for Republicans to negotiate with them on expiring health subsidies.

Merkley spoke for more than 22 hours, from 6:21 p.m. Tuesday to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, pausing for lengthy questions from other Democratic senators.

His speech was one of the longest in Senate history, just short of a similar speech in April by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. Booker, who was also protesting Trump, broke the record with a speech that lasted longer than 25 hours, surpassing a 1957 speech by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina filibustering the advance of the Civil Rights Act.

On Monday, the Senate voted against reopening the federal government for the 11th time, extending the shutdown to three weeks with both sides at odds and unable to break the deadlock. The chamber voted 50-43 on the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to pass.

Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) once again swung to the Republican side. On Monday, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who had previously supported the proposal, abstained from voting. The only Senate GOP "no" vote was from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stated that the Democratic stance "remains the same" during remarks made on the Senate floor on Monday. Schumer remarked, "As we enter a new week of Donald Trump's government shutdown, Republicans appear content to let health care premiums for more than 20 million working- and middle-class Americans rise, to not negotiate, and to not work."

The disagreement has revolved around Democrats' insistence on action to extend the expiring improved health care subsidies as a condition for reopening the government, with Republicans refusing and unable to make any such assurances.

Prominent Republicans have insisted that until the closure is over, no discussion about the tax credits can take place.

"It is truly amazing how a program created by Democrats and tax credits that they chose to sunset have now become the Republicans' crisis," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) remarked on the floor. "In actuality, Republicans had no involvement at all."

The next Senate vote on the stopgap funding bill is scheduled on Wednesday.

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