HARRISBURG — Democrats in the Pennsylvania Senate blocked a GOP bid to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of a short-term spending plan Wednesday, as attention began turning to a compromise being worked on by top Republicans in a bid to break a four-month stalemate.

The Senate’s vote came on the 120th day of a partisan budget battle between the first-term Democratic governor and the Legislature’s Republican majorities.

A successful override of Wolf’s Sept. 29 veto of a short-term, $11 billion Republican-written spending package would have required at least three Democrats to join all 30 Republicans in voting “yes.” Instead, in a show of solidarity, all 19 Democrats opposed the override.

Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre, beseeched Democrats to support a four-month infusion of money for schools and social services providers while policymakers work out their differences. In his comments, he singled out superintendents from Democrats’ districts who were in Harrisburg on Wednesday.

“You think they care whether this is temporary money? It’s one-third? I don’t think they care,” Corman said. “I think they care that their doors are going to stay open, that they can pay their employees, that parents in their districts won’t have to face the decision, ‘What am I going to do with my kids while I’m working a full day because their school is closed?’ Has anybody given me a reason why this is harmful for the commonwealth?”