The U.S. Senate’s latest vote to pass a stopgap funding bill to end the partial federal government shutdown is expected to fail on Oct. 6. That means the shutdown, now in its sixth day, will continue.
The Republican-backed measure, which would restore government funding until Nov. 21, needs 60 votes to pass.
In the past four attempts, only 55 senators voted in favor of the bill, mostly along partisan lines with a few important defections. That vote-breaking is unlikely to change; no additional Democrats have said they would support the measure since the last vote, USA TODAY reports.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that threatened layoffs from the shutdown haven’t begun but continue to loom.
Leavitt said the Office of Management and Budget is reviewing layoff plans with federal agencies. Asked whether layoffs would follow another failed Senate vote on Oct. 6, Leavitt refused to say when layoffs would begin.
