Senate Republicans voted Friday to reject a Democratic bill to fund the government past the end of the month in the first of dueling partisan votes on avoiding an Oct. 1 shutdown.
Senators voted 47-45 to reject the bill, which pairs government funding through Oct. 31 with health care policies and restrictions on President Donald Trump’s ability to hold back spending approved by Congress.
The Democratic proposal was widely expected to fail — it needed 60 votes to pass, which would have required support from more than a dozen Republicans. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pushed to get GOP senators on the record rejecting some of the…
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