There was no movement Wednesday as the U.S. Senate took its sixth vote to end a government shutdown that has reached a full week, a sign that both sides have dug in.

Both of Maine’s senators, Republican Susan Collins and independent Angus King, again voted in favor of the Republicans’ temporary funding bill, but it failed nonetheless.

In an interview with the Press Herald before the vote, King said he continues to support the Republicans’ stopgap measure to reopen the federal government because he’s worried about giving President Donald Trump more power and accelerating the country’s “slide to authoritarianism.”

He had told Washington, D.C., reporters on Monday that he was considering changing his vote — a move that likely would have emboldened Senate Democrats to keep fighting.

Instead, he chose to stay the course.

“I’ve come to the conclusion that the greatest risk we face is this slide towards authoritarianism and that the shutdown accelerates it,” King said. “I hope I’m wrong, but the stakes are too high to take the risk in my view.”

King agreed that extending the enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act before they expire at the end of the year and cause premiums to increase for many working-class families is an important issue to address. But he’s more concerned about Trump’s power grab and his recent moves to send the military into Democratic-controlled cities, defy court orders, use the Justice Department to prosecute political enemies and intimidate the press.

“It strikes me as not very good policy to try to stand up to a bully by handing him a new weapon and that’s what this shutdown is,” he said.

Collins, the top Senate appropriator, said she’s been shopping a six-point plan to end the shutdown, which she continues to blame on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers was scheduled to meet Tuesday, but Collins did not attend, her office said.

Details of her plan were not available Wednesday.

“Senator Collins is continuing to discuss her draft proposal with her Republican and Democratic colleagues,” spokesperson Phoebe Ferraiolo said in an email.

“The proposal includes an agreement to discuss extending and reforming the ACA tax credits once government has reopened. It also includes a commitment to complete the three bipartisan appropriations bills that passed the Senate in August and send them to the president to be signed into law.”

The federal government shut down last week after Senate Democrats voted against the Republican proposal to fund the government into late November, a timeline that they said would allow them to finalize annual spending bills.

Democrats offered a counterproposal to extend enhanced ACA subsidies that will expire at the end of the year, driving up health care costs for working families. They also want to reverse nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts under Trump’s mega-bill.

Neither proposal has garnered the 60 votes needed to send it to the president.

Members of Congress continue to get paid during the shutdown. Nonessential workers have been furloughed and essential employees are working without pay and will only see only partial paychecks on Friday — their last ones until government reopens.

The administration has discussed not providing back pay to furloughed employees and laying off nonessential workers, but has yet to act.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has not brought the lower chamber back in session since the shutdown, which will make it difficult to pass anything other than the stopgap spending bill previously approved by the House.

Rep. Jared Golden, D-2nd District, was the only Democrat to support that bill.

King initially opposed the Republican plan, then changed his mind in subsequent votes.

The only way to extend the ACA credits and prevent premium increases, King said, is if Trump intervenes — something that could happen whether the federal government is open or closed.

Collins, meanwhile, sought to maintain pressure on Democrats, saying the consequences of a shutdown “will only worsen over time” and federal workers, including the military, U.S. Coast Guard and federal law enforcement will soon lose their paychecks.

“This unnecessary and harmful shutdown is also unfair to furloughed federal workers and their families” she said in a written statement after Wednesday’s vote. “I am continuing to urge my Democratic colleagues to vote to reopen government as quickly as possible and resume work on the appropriations bills.”