WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and Republicans from the Northwest blamed each other Tuesday for an imminent government shutdown, as the Senate failed to pass a short-term spending bill amid a fight over health care costs.

Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House, but they need the support of at least seven Democratic senators to pass a bill that would continue funding the government at current levels until mid-November, buying time for Congress to finish writing full-year spending bills. But Democrats, frustrated by President Donald Trump’s policies and feeling pressure from their base to put up a fight, have chosen to use what limited leverage they have to demand Republicans reverse a recent cut to Medicaid funding and extend expiring subsidies for private heal

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