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The Senate is voting today for a ninth time on the House-passed stopgap bill, which would fund the government through Nov. 21, after rejecting the measure last night.

At the two-week mark, Republicans and Democrats are bracing for a long government shutdown , with both parties seeing more upside in persisting with their conflicting demands.

Trump, meanwhile, threatened to cut more "Democrat programs" and said he would release a list of priorities on Friday if the government remained closed. The White House Office of Management and Budget said in a social media post it was preparing for more layoffs.

The government shutdown is delaying another major economic report: the Labor Department's monthly inflation data. The figures are needed for the government to calculate

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