The Senate has rejected competing proposals from Republicans and Democrats to keep the government open into the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, and left town for one week in the midst of the shutdown stalemate.

After the pair of failed votes Friday, Congress has 11 days to avert a shutdown of nonessential government services and no plan for doing so.

Republicans and Democrats both pointed blame at the other party as they argued for their competing bills.

The primary difference is Democrats want to include their health care priorities, like extending Obamacare premium subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, and guardrails to ensure the Trump administration cannot flout congressional spending directives.

The GOP plan passed the House earlier Friday on a mostly party-line 217-212 vote.

It was rejected in the Senate 48-44, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Pennsylvania Sen. Jon Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote for it.

Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against it.

Republicans’ bill would have extended most current spending levels and policies through Nov. 21, with some typical exceptions to allow higher rates of spending in certain programs, like ones affecting national defense, disaster prevention and response and food assistance.

The GOP said the measure was “clean” and free of partisan riders, which is what Democrats have always supported in the past when stopgap funding measures have been needed.

“Democrats have to take yes for an answer,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, South Dakota Republican, noting that Democrats voted for clean CRs 13 times when they were the majority.

The Democrats’ alternative plan, which would have extended current funding through Oct. 31, was also rejected, 47-45, short of the 60 needed. Seven Republicans did not vote.

Democrats’ proposal would have repealed recent GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid that implement work requirements for able-bodied adults and deny coverage to illegal immigrants.

It also would have permanently extended Democrats’ pandemic-era expansions of Obamacare premium tax credits that are set to expire at year’s end.

“Americans will see the glaring contrast between the Republican plan continuing the status quo of Donald Trump’s health care cuts and high costs and the Democratic plan to avoid a shutdown while lowering premiums, fixing Medicaid, and protecting funds for scientific and medical research,” said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat.

His reference to protecting research funds is about provisions in the bill that would restore funding to the National Institutes of Health and other programs that the White House Office of Management and Budget has frozen.

Democrats say OMB’s moves to indefinitely withhold funds are an illegal impoundment of congressional appropriations, and they added additional guardrails in their CR to protect against the Trump administration from doing so in the future.

Their measure also would restore funding for public broadcasting that Republicans voted to cut in their $9 billion rescission package.

• Lindsey McPherson can be reached at lmcpherson@washingtontimes.com.