US government still shut down on as Senate fails to clinch deal

“That’s why from one corner of America, this is being called the Trump shutdown”, Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday.

“We can do it together”, Durbin said. The shutdown took effect Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the president’s inauguration, but the White House said that Trump came out the victor in the GOP’s standoff with Democrats.

Mulvaney said that if the shutdown continues into Monday, there were be three categories of federal employees affected: those who will continue to come to work, another group that will come to work for about four hours “to help shut things down” and those who will not come to work at all.

“We’ll work to keep as many agencies open as we can”, he said, adding “effects won’t be as visible as they were in 2013.most Americans won’t see a difference”.

The No. 2 Senate Democrat was also the one who quoted Trump as using the term “shithole countries” to refer to Africa during a separate Oval Office meeting, a comment that seemed to set back negotiations over an immigration bill. FINGER POINTING CONTINUESHouse Speaker Paul Ryan told “Fox and Friends” on Monday that if the Senate approved a temporary spending bill to reopen the government through February 8, the House would approve it, too.

“Encouraged that 22 members from both parties attended”, Republican Senator Susan Collins said in a tweet.

Like the president, McConnell blamed the Democrats.

The White House has said normal government operations will resume by Tuesday morning. She told reporters that Trump’s focus was on minimizing the impact of the shutdown on Americans.

Chief of Staff John Kelly has spoken with House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The Republican president took a new swipe at Democrats as he celebrated.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s calls to end Senate filibusters. McConnell is not pledging to hold a vote on a fix for DACA at any time – only to take up the legislation.

Republicans now control the chamber 51-49.

McConnell’s promise to address DACA in February might not be much, but it may be just enough to win the Democratic support needed to end the shutdown.

McConnell has long defended the filibuster.

Centrist senators racing to strike a deal to end the government shutdown expressed optimism Sunday that they were close to an agreement – but it was unclear whether they would be able to secure the support of leadership to end the impasse.

The federal government entered the second day of a shutdown Sunday.

Democrats said they oppose the three-week plan, viewing it as a way to stall negotiations over the future of the “Dreamers”, whose protections expire in March. “In fact, the legislation passed today is the same bill that was initially proposed last week with the exception of moving up the next deadline by eight days”.

The stopgap measure won 50 votes in the Senate, including five Democrats. “But they can go nowhere until Senate Democrats realize that the extreme path their Leader has charted leads them nowhere”.

In recent years, Democratic and Republican Senate leaders have changed rules protecting the minority party.

He says, “What we should be doing is negotiating”.

For ticket refunds, visitors were told to contact the private Statue Cruises company that runs ferries from lower Manhattan to the statue and Ellis Island, the historic entry point in New York Harbor for immigrants to the United States that is now a museum. Trump himself has indicated he would be opening to signing a bill to protect DREAMers, but the White House has said it would not negotiate on immigration until the government re-opened.

It is a familiar sentiment for presidents stuck in crises with Congress. The last USA government shutdown was in 2013. He says the soldiers and their families “shouldn’t have to worry about getting paid”. “President Trump tells me to figure it out with the congressional leaders”.

That’s the same with other “essential” Federal jobs like law enforcement and mail delivery.

At 12:38 a.m. Saturday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out an email blast against Casey, whose leading opponent, Rep. Lou Barletta, is considered a top prospect for helping the GOP pick up a Senate seat.

Meanwhile, the liberal Indivisible Project, which was founded by Capitol Hill veterans and boasts thousands of local chapters, has focused its efforts more on holdout Democrats from blue and purple states, such as senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, both of whom had voted to keep the government open in December – but not this time.

Mr Trump yesterday tweeted that if the shutdown stalemate continues, Republicans should consider the so-called “nuclear option” in the Senate, which would allow them to vote on a long-term Budget with a simple majority and no more continuing resolutions.

But Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of IL says that would mean the end of the Senate as the Founding Fathers envisioned it.