A Democratic bill to fund the U.S. government and end a shutdown was falling short of the votes needed for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, as voting continued. (Reporting by Nolan McCaskill, Katharine Jackson) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he would not call back the House to vote on a separate bill to pay members of the military, saying Senate Democrats should support the GOP bill to reopen the...