Senate to reconvene on Monday amid funding stalemate as government shutdown drags on

WASHINGTON -- The Senate volition convene astatine 3 p.m. ET connected Monday arsenic the government shutdown drags connected into its 5th week arsenic of Wednesday.

Monday marks time 27 of the shutdown, which is present the second-longest successful history. The longest occurred during President Donald Trump's archetypal term, lasting 35 days done December 2018 into January 2019.

This comes arsenic the House remains retired of league this week, and Republican and Democratic lawmakers stay astatine a stalemate connected uncovering a authorities backing solution.

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Speaking with journalists connected Air Force One en way to Japan connected Monday, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the ongoing authorities shutdown and resulting aerial postulation controller shortages.

Asked whether determination was a mode for the authorities to wage aerial postulation controllers arsenic the cardinal employees miss paychecks, the president replied, "Yeah, determination is," though did not elaborate connected however those controllers could beryllium paid.

Trump alternatively pivoted to blaming Democrats for the shutdown and called connected Democrats to ballot for a cleanable continuing solution to money the government.

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"The Democrats tin lick that occupation with aerial postulation control," helium said. "All they person to bash is say, 'The country's open'. We lone request 5 votes. The Republicans are with us. We lone request 5 votes. So let's spot what happens."

"I would ideate that gets taken attraction of, not lone the controllers, but different radical too," Trump added.

The Senate failed to beforehand Sen. Ron Johnson's, R-Wis., measure past week that would person provided wage to immoderate national workers during the shutdown.

It failed Thursday by a ballot of 55-45. It would person needed 60 votes to advance.

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., voted with each Republicans to beforehand the bill. All different Democrats voted against it, efficaciously blocking it from advancing.

Majority Leader John Thune flipped his ballot to a nary astatine the extremity of the rotation call, a procedural determination that allows the authorities to beryllium much rapidly reconsidered successful the future.

There are a fewer Senators who person been consistently voting against their enactment during the repeated effort by Republicans implicit the past fewer weeks to walk a cleanable backing measure that would reopen the authorities done Nov. 21. This ballot broke differently. Most of those senators voted with their enactment connected this bill.

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has been opposing the short-term backing bill, voted to beforehand Johnson's measure today. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Independent Angus King, who person been consistently voting for the stopgap backing measure contempt Democratic absorption to it, stuck with Democrats and voted to reason this legislation.

Fetterman was the lone Democrat to ballot some for the short-term backing measure and this bill.