Republicans today could not get enough Democratic votes to pass their spending bill to re-open the federal government. Meanwhile, Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of using the shutdown to cut federal spending in blue states.

The House won’t return to Washington, D.C., until mid-October, increasing pressure on Senate Democrats to pass Republicans’ spending deal in order to reopen the government.

Trump has already frozen federal transit and green-energy funding for Democratic-leaning states and has threatened to fire more federal workers during the shutdown, which began on Wednesday due to a ...