WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats again voted down a stopgap funding bill on Tuesday, putting the federal government on track for a shutdown after midnight.

A House-passed bill to keep the government open with funding at current levels until Nov. 21 failed to clear the 60-vote legislative filibuster by five votes — with three Democrats voting in favor.

“Cracks on the Democratic side are starting to show,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told reporters after Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and Angus King of Maine joined 52 Republicans in voting to keep the government open.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only Republican to vote against the stopgap spending bill. 6

“This is something that 13 times, when [Chuck Schumer] was the majority lead

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