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After a seventh failed vote Thursday on a short-term funding bill to reopen the government, senators left town and don’t plan to return to D.C. until next Tuesday, even as the government remains shut down with no end in sight.

What does this mean? The government shutdown will last at least two weeks. The next chance to vote to reopen the government is Oct. 14. Members of the military are guaranteed to miss their paycheck on Oct. 15.

What’s next? The Senate has scheduled a vote for Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. on the "clean" short-term funding bill to reopen the government, passed by the House GOP. This will be the eighth time the Senate will hold a vote on the measure.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

In an email to staff Thursday morning, the IRS is now walking back guidance it provided in a previous internal memo to staff that stated furloughed employees were entitled to receive back pay, according to an email obtained by ABC News.

In the email with the subject line "Furlough guidance update," IRS staff were told that a previous memo "incorrectly stated the nature of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 as it relates to compensation for non-pay and non-duty status," and says OMB would provide future guidance.

On Thursday, the IRS sent an agency-wide email with guidance on furloughs included a line that stated the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 "requires" furloughed federal workers to receive back pay once funding is restored.

-ABC News' Will Steakin

The Senate failed once again to advance the GOP clean short-term measure to fund the government for the seventh time by a vote of 54-45. It did not receive the necessary 60 votes to move forward.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul voted against the bill, breaking with his party yet again.

Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, as well as Independent Angus King of Maine, voted in favor. No other Democrats switched their vote.

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz missed the vote.

Earlier, the Senate failed to advance a Democratic-led funding bill that includes health care provisions by a vote of 47-50. This was the seventh time that effort has failed, too. Not one Republican supported it.

For now, the government funding stalemate continues with no clear end in sight, and the House remains out of session.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters the Senate will be in session on Friday, where we could see another vote on the dueling funding bills.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

President Donald Trump continued to criticize Democrats over the government shutdown, which has now entered its ninth day.

"You have Democrats that they've lost their way. They have no leadership. We don't even know who to deal with over there," Trump said as he convened a meeting of his Cabinet at the White House.

"Republicans have voted repeatedly to pass a clean, nonpartisan bill to reopen government at the same funding levels," Trump said.

Democrats have so far opposed the clean continuing resolution as they push for health care provisions, specifically extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.

"We're not going to do anything -- only good for health care," Trump said. "We're really, I think, have become the party of good health care."