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Senate Democrats kept repeating that they want a month-long stopgap CR to allow appropriators to formulate a full-year funding bill.

Time is running out, shutdown looms

Government funding runs out in 30 hours or so. And Senate Democrats aren’t backing off their threat to block the House-passed CR — and trigger a government shutdown — while acknowledging privately that there are enough votes to ease passage of the measure.

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