Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a bipartisan, pro-Israel bill that many of them support to protest the government shutdown, and they said they’d vote down any bill that doesn’t reopen the government.

Sixty votes were needed to open debate on the Middle East security legislation, which includes language allowing states to stop doing business with companies that boycott Israel as part of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

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