Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock voted with Republicans on Thursday on the government shutdown, after previously rejecting every GOP measure to re-open the government or fund parts of it.

Why it matters: Their dissents introduce a new challenge for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). He's keeping his total number of defections low, but the universe of Democrats willing to defy him is expanding. • Ossoff and Warnock, both Georgia Democrats, voted — along with Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) — for a GOP-led bill to pay the military and some other federal workers. • GOP leaders plan to put similar bills on the floor next week, possibly including a measure to pay air traffic controllers through the shutdown. • Affordable Care Act open enrollment — and the possibility of wides

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