Senate Democrats aren’t ruling out bipartisan progress on full-year spending bills as Republicans make Pentagon funding the new pressure point in a weekslong shutdown fight.

A Thursday vote on the War Department funding bill, teed up by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), is presenting Democrats with their latest unity test . They have largely stuck together to oppose a short-term spending patch that passed the House in September, instead demanding that healthcare concessions be part of any funding bill.

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