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The federal government still officially shut down.

That means that the shutdown is now entered its sixth day.

It's already tied with the fourth longest shutdown in U.S. history.

And the scale, it is large.

As the Schumer shutdown continues, estimates suggest

900,000. Federal employees have been furloughed and others required to work without pay. Now, to be

clear, they will receive back pay when the government reopens. Many services are paused or operating in a curtailed mode,

especially programs dependent on annual appropriations, WIC parts of the IRS, certain grant programs,

for example, and the federal judiciary courts has projected it can maintain operations

through October the 17th under existing resources.

And that brings us to today.

A majority of Democratic senators rejected on Monday the fifth attempt by Republicans

to pass a stopgap bill that would end the government shutdown.

Just hours after President Trump even floated the idea of possibly making a health care deal

with the Democrats.

But that didn't matter.

The deadlocked Senate voted 52 to 42, with 60 votes needed, to block the simple Trump-back continuing resolution,

a clean CR, from moving forward, ensuring the government will remain unfunded for a seventh

straight day today. The measure, which would keep the government funded at pre-shutdown levels.

Until November the 21st fell yet again eight votes short of the 60 need to clear the legislative filibuster.

Democratic Senators Mastow and Federman, as well as Agnes King of Maine,

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