Congress appears no closer to solution for shutdown as 13th funding vote fails

As the federal government shutdown nears the one-month mark, A 13th vote in the Senate on Tuesday that would have funded the government has failed.

Members of the military are about to miss their first paychecks. Some federal workers have already gone without pay for weeks.

And reserves that had kept some programs running since the shutdown began are now dwindling. Dozens of states have announced they could lose SNAP benefit funding, meaning that millions of Americans could go hungry if the shutdown stretches into the month of November.

Democrats, despite pressure from the largest union of federal employees, remain dug in their position to try and preserve funding for Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are expiring by the end of the year.

Some members of the party have also said they