Congress was no step closer to ending the government shutdown after the Senate rejected, for the fifth time, dueling short-term funding bills from Republicans and Democrats.

The chamber voted mostly along party lines, besides the same handful of defectors who have crossed the aisle in past recent votes, on the proposals to reopen the government.

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