Congress barrels toward government shutdown as handful of GOP senators hold out over vaccine mandates

Funding for the government runs out just before midnight Friday and Congress is not even close to passing a bill to avert a shutdown. 

"The vaccine mandate is going to shut down our businesses in this country, which is going to further disrupt" the economy, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told FOX Business Wednesday. 

He's one of a handful of Republican senators demanding that a continuing resolution includes a provision to withhold funding from the enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates by the Biden administration.