Nevada’s Democratic Senators Are Split on Reopening the Government. Their Reasons Why Are the Same.

Two Senate Democrats from the same state, who say they are fighting for the same things, have now voted nine times in opposite directions on whether to reopen the government.

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, two Nevadans who’ve voted for and against reopening the government, respectively, represent a split in the Democratic Party over the shutdown — which now seems like it will certainly stretch into a fourth week.

The two women say it’s a disagreement on the means, not the ends.