A small but growing group of Senate Democrats is splitting with party leaders on how to handle the ongoing government shutdown. The breaks have come on two tracks—votes to reopen the government and a separate push to pay some essential workers during the lapse.
On the 12 votes to advance a House-passed measure to reopen the government, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has sided with Republicans along with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats.
On Oct. 23, Georgia’s two Democratic senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, crossed the aisle—along with Fetterman—to support a GOP bill to pay military personnel and other excepted federal workers during the shutdown….