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The Senate failed to advance Sen. Ron Johnson's, R-Wis., bill that would have provided pay to some federal workers during the shutdown on Thursday by a vote of 55-45. It would have needed 60 votes to advance. Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., voted with all Republicans to advance the bill. All other Democrats voted against it, effectively blocking it from advancing. Majority Leader John Thune flipped his vote to a no at the end of the roll call, a procedural move that allows the legislation to be more quickly reconsidered in the future. There are a few Senators who have been consistently voting against their party during the repeated effort by Republicans over the past few weeks to pass a clean funding bill that would reopen the government through Nov. 21. This vote broke differently. Most of those senators voted with their party on this bill. Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has been opposing the short-term funding bill, voted to advance Johnson's bill today. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Independent Angus King, who have been consistently voting for the stopgap funding bill despite Democratic opposition to it, stuck with Democrats and voted to oppose this legislation. Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote both for the short-term funding bill and this bill. ABC News' Allison Pecorin
