Republican leaders in Congress on Wednesday dug in on pressuring Democrats to vote for a “clean” GOP-crafted stopgap to reopen the government, signaling the Senate will hold repeated votes on the bill if necessary.

The top GOP leaders from both chambers appeared on the Capitol’s west terrace Wednesday morning in a rare press conference setting that had the National Mall in the background as a video screen played old videos of Democrats criticizing government shutdowns.

“The Democrats need to pass the House’s seven-week funding bill. Until then, there's nothing to negotiate, there’s no compromises to be had, there's no gangs, there's no back channels,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), chair of the Senate Republican........

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