WATCH: Senate Votes on Measures to Avert Government Shutdown as Midnight Deadline Looms

Update: The Democrats’ proposal failed to pass the US Senate.

The US Senate on Tuesday afternoon voted on measures to avert a looming midnight government shutdown.

The Senate is currently voting on two bills.

The Hill reported:

The Senate is voting on two competing bills to avert a government shutdown at midnight.

The chamber will first vote on a Democratic proposal that pairs a funding extension with health care provisions, then the GOP’s House-passed “clean” stopgap bill.

Both are expected to fail, plunging Washington into its first shutdown in more than five years.

WATCH:

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