Shutdown will stretch into another week as Senate standoff continues

The government shutdown will go into a second week.

Senators rejected another opportunity Friday to reopen agencies and are now out of session until Monday, when leadership is expected to force a fifth vote on a House-passed proposal to fund the government through Nov. 21.

The stalemate comes as the fallout from the shutdown is growing: White House budget director Russ Vought announced Friday he was targeting funding in Illinois, another largely Democratic state, following cuts made earlier in the week to infrastructure projects in New York. The administration is also on the precipice of enacting its widely telegraphed plans to carry out mass…

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