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Trump just made an offer to Democrats to end the government shutdown.

Here’s what the President says his proposal includes:

President Trump, speaking at the White House, said he is outlining his plan to reopen the government, which has been partially shut down for more than four weeks.

“That is why I am here today to break the log jam and provide Congress with a path forward to end the government shutdown and solve the crisis on the southern border,” he said.

Trump called his plan a “common-sense compromise that both parties should embrace,” and said this is a chance for “real bipartisan immigration reform.”

President Trump is speaking from the White House. He is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding.

Trump started his remarks by talking about the US’s “badly broken” immigration system.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also a no on Trump’s proposal to end the government shutdown.

In a statement, Pelosi maintained Democrats’ stance that they would only negotiate once Trump reopens the government. She also called the initiatives in Trump’s offer “unacceptable.”

“Unfortunately, initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives. It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter,” the statement read.

Read her full statement here.

President Trump is soon expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in exchange for border wall funding.

Remember: This isn’t the first time that negotiations have involved a fix for DACA in exchange for border wall funding.

Democrats did have $25 billion on the table for border security in exchange for DACA. That deal included a 10-14 year path to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers, as well as permanent status and full protections afforded to all US citizens.

That deal could have included a wall, and Sen. Chuck Schumer privately promised as much as $20 billion to Trump in exchange for a path to citizenship for eligible immigrants.

The proposal had 54 votes in the Senate at the time, but Trump rejected that bipartisan proposal and threatened a veto.

Now, the White House is offering the BRIDGE Act. When it was originally proposed, the bill offered temporary protections while a long term sustainable deal was hatched. Democrats were much more open to a deal back then because they didn’t have a majority in the House.

The bottom line: Trump’s latest proposal isn’t nearly as good of a deal for either side. For Democrats, it’s a temporary solution for DACA and TPS recipients. For the President, it’s far less funding for the wall than what he turned down ($5.7 billion vs. $25 billion).

The President this afternoon hosted a naturalization ceremony in Oval Office.

The event was just before his 4 p.m. ET shutdown announcement, where he is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding, a source confirms.

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence walked into the Oval Office and went down the line to shake hands with each person here for the naturalization ceremony. 

The President gave a fist pump and applauded when Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen declared the group of men and women citizens.  

Trump welcomed the ceremony participants as the newest members of the “great American family,” noting that this was the first swearing-in they’ve had in the Oval Office.

Sen. Dick Durbin, one of the key Democratic voices on immigration and the second-ranked senator in their caucus, released a statement on the President’s offer to end the shutdown in exchange for border wall funding and protections for DACA and TPS recipients.

“First, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell must open the government today. Second, I cannot support the proposed offer as reported and do not believe it can pass the Senate. Third, I am ready to sit down at any time after the government is opened and work to resolve all outstanding issues,” the statement read.

Though Durbin is one of the original sponsors of the BRIDGE Act, which would have extended protections to Dreamers, Democrats have largely moved away from it, seeing it as a temporary solution.

Here’s Durbin’s full statement:

The proposal President Trump will present to Democrats this afternoon is expected to include the BRIDGE Act, originally proposed by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin.

Based on the bill introduced in the last Congress, it would grant protected status to eligible Dreamers for three years. It would also extend Temporary Protected Status to some immigrants, a measure not included in the BRIDGE Act.

Trump hasn’t been willing to address DACA in a possible border wall deal until this week, previously saying that the courts should sort it out first.

His latest move is an attempt to get Democrats to the negotiating table, but it might not work out for him. Here are some of the holes in his strategy:

Besides where Democrats stand on this, the biggest outstanding question right now is if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually puts this on the Senate floor on his own.

McConnell has said before that he wouldn’t put anything on the Senate floor unless Pelosi, Schumer and the President all signed off.

The immigration deal the President is expected to lay out will include the BRIDGE Act and a legal status extension for Temporary Protected Status holders, a senior administration officials. But all that could change.

The plan is modeled after proposals that Democrats have voted for in the past, in an attempt to get them back to the negotiating table. 

The White House didn’t consult with Democrats on the proposal. Instead, it was based on conversations with Republicans and a belief that moderate rank and file Democrats are more willing to compromise than their leadership. 

A Democratic Congressional aide forcefully rejected the proposal.

In his announcement this afternoon, President Trump is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding, a source confirms.

The proposal would allow those immigrants to remain in the country. The Trump administration has previously rescinded protections of some TPS holders and announced plans to phase out the DACA program.

It’s unclear whether Democrats will be open to the proposal. They’ve so far refused to provide any funding for the border wall, insisting that Trump reopen the government first.

Trump will now speak from the White House at 4 p.m. ET.

President Donald Trump is planning to make Democrats an offer to end the government shutdown in a speech from the White House at 3 p.m., according to a senior administration official.

Trump is not expected to back down from his demand for a border wall, but the plan will seek to entice Democrats by offering other concessions, the official said.

White House officials are pessimistic that it will change much in stalled talks, because Democrats have previously refused to counter the White House’s proposal. Instead they have insisted that the President reopen the government, then engage in negotiations over border security.

The official said Trump is not expected to announce a decision on declaring a national emergency during Saturday’s speech, but nothing is definite until it’s announced by the President.

When asked today if he would be calling for a national emergency, Trump didn’t answer – only saying he would be making an “important statement” this afternoon.

“I’m going to be making a statement at 3 p.m.,” Trump said. “I will be making an important statement.”

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was noncommittal on the prospects of a State of the Union address days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the President asking him to postpone the speech due to the government shutdown. 

Here’s how Sanders put it:

“We’ll keep you posted. Look, as the President has done every single day since he got into office, he’s going to continue to communicate directly with the American people whether it’s speeches across the country, through social media, through taking questions from you guys and we’ll continue to do whether on it’s on Capitol Hill or elsewhere.”

 Asked again whether there would be an address on Jan. 29, she wouldn’t say.

 “We’ll certainly keep you posted on that front,” she said.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the possibility that furloughed workers could miss another paycheck is “absolutely” adding to the urgency of the government shutdown.

“Absolutely. That’s one of the key reasons that the President did not want Speaker Pelosi to leave the country,” Sanders said, referencing Trump’s letter denying Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi use of a military aircraft for a trip to Afghanistan.

She continued: “If she did it would all be guarantee the fact that the negotiations couldn’t take place over the weekend and federal workers, 800,000 federal workers wouldn’t receive their paychecks because she wasn’t here to help make a deal.”

Hundreds of thousands workers missed their first paychecks last week.

Sanders was also asked about some Democrats’ concerns that the shutdown could affect the upcoming Super Bowl in Atlanta.

“If the Democrats have those types of concerns, they should sit down at the table and negotiate with the President,” she said.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said Democrats will continue bringing up spending bills next week.

On the Super Bowl being a national security event, Hoyer didn’t say whether he thinks it should be canceled or postponed

“These national security events, we need to have people at their sharpest, we need them concentrating on their job. Not on whether they can pay their mortgage payment, not on whether they can pay their car payment, not on whether they can put up food on their table.”

The Association of Assistant US Attorneys says the shutdown is affecting some criminal cases.   

DNA testing is not being “timely performed” in some cases, and lack of track funds means some interviews of victims and witnesses aren’t happening, the association said in a statement. 

The government website website Americans use to report stolen identity cases has been shuttered by the government shutdown. 

An estimated nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year — That’s almost 25,000 identities stolen each day. 

“Recovering from identity theft is easier with a plan,” says a government public service announcement video about the website. “You can generate the letters and forms that you need, track your progress and keep detailed records of people that you’ve talked to.”

IndentityTheft.gov now looks like this:

CNN attempted to contact the FTC for comment and received an automated reply, saying that their public affairs office was closed and there would be no response.

How it’s impacting customers: Julie Korts, 52, was shopping for the holidays on Dec. 19 in Plymouth, Minnesota. In the course of three minutes, she got a phone call, text and email notification.

“The phone then rang again, and I answered,” she told CNN. “It was Citicorp who handles my Home Depot credit card.”

No, she had not just bought $37 worth of stuff at a Pomona, California, Home Depot. But someone using her identity did.

Korts did what she was supposed to: She made a report with her local police department and contacted the Federal Trade Commission to file a report.

The FTC directed her to IndentityTheft.gov — the shuttered website — which usually guides victims through each step of the recovery process with a personalized recovery program.

“Every day I wonder how much of my life is ruined,” she says. “Every day I wake up and wonder who will call today…I just don’t know what to do next.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, speaking about President Trump’s letter denying her congressional delegation a military plane to visit troops in Afghanistan, said Trump’s “outing” of the trip made it more dangerous.

She said she received a report from Afghanistan that said “the President outing our trip had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous.”

Pelosi said her team was ready to fly commercial — until the administration leaked news of the visit.

“We had the prerogative to travel commercially and we made plans to do that until the administration then leaked that we were traveling commercially and that endangers us.”

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Brenner Stiles, an Army veteran and furloughed federal worker, said the effects of the government shutdown are “psychologically traumatizing.”

“I’ve cried in my car. At least two times I’ve cried in my shower,” she told CNN as she explained how she has tried to hide her stress from her family.

Stiles, who is a mother of three, said she’s gone into “survival mode,” trying to make dinner last a few days and cutting down on any beverages other than tea and water.

Although she doesn’t believe the government has let her down, she said she believes federal workers are being mistreated.

“It just seems like federal employees are utilized as pawns in American politics,” she said.

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Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued a memo Friday officially banning all congressional delegations from using taxpayer-funded aircraft.

This comes one day after the White House denied a military plane for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Afghanistan to visit the troops.

Here’s what Vought wrote:

“Under no circumstances during a government shutdown will any government owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft support any Congressional delegation, without the express written approval of the White House Chief of Staff. Nor will any funds appropriated to the Executive Branch be used for any Congressional delegation travel expenses, without his express written approval.”

Here’s the full letter: 

The unscheduled absence rate continues to be higher than a year ago for Transportation Security Administration workers. TSA says 6.4% were out yesterday, compared to 3.8% last year.

While the TSA is showing nationwide most passengers are waiting less than 15 minutes, individual airports had significant maximum wait times.

Why this is happening: The number of Transportation Security Administration employees taking unscheduled absences has increased steadily since the shutdown started and since CNN first reported on the phenomenon. In the last week, it was at times more than twice what it was at the same time last year, according to data released by TSA.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta will open to the public Saturday morning ahead of Monday’s national holiday thanks to a grant from The Delta Air Lines Foundation and revenue generated by the National Park Service recreation fees, according to a news release from the airline.

Most sites of the park — including the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church and King’s birth home — have been closed since the partial government shutdown began on December 22.

The park will stay open through Feb. 3.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian shared via his LinkedIn page today Delta’s reason for taking action.

The $83,500 grant will cover the re-opening of the park, including clean up, administration, maintenance and operating costs of employees not covered under the fee collection funds.

As part of the airline’s commitment to support education, the grant contributes to Delta’s initiative to give 1 percent of its annual net profits to key community organizations where employees live, work and serve.

PayPal plans to help furloughed federal workers during the shutdown with up to $25 million in interest-free cash advances.   

PayPal says it will offer cash advances up to $500 for federal employees to help pay for food, gas, and other everyday necessities. The average federal employee earns about $500 per week according to the AFGE, the largest federal employee union.

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman tells CNN he believes the private sector is in a position to help, and that PayPal is “proud to stand with so many other great companies to offer assistance to our government workers who contribute so much to our public sector.” 

Banks and credit unions that cater to federal workers are already readying financial help for their customers as the government shutdown drags on, including low-or no-interest payroll advances and loans.

CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan contributed to this report.

As the partial government shutdown nears the one-month mark, there have been a number of public opinion polls examining how the public feels about the shutdown, which was sparked by a funding standoff over President Donald Trump’s proposal for a new wall along the border with Mexico.

Six high-quality polls have been released this week touching on Trump, the shutdown, the Democrats in Congress and the wall.

Most confirmed what we already knew from before the shutdown started: Opposition to a border wall is widespread and deep. But beyond that general opposition, the new polls offer some consistent results, including:

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As the government shutdown stretches towards a fifth week, FBI field offices across the country are opening food banks to help support special agents and staff struggling without pay.

In Dallas, Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, the FBI has set up or planned for areas where employees can drop off non-perishable food items for other employees to pick up, according to multiple law enforcement officials.

On the West Coast, at least two FBI field offices are considering establishing food banks as one of a number of ideas to help employees hurting from the shutdown, a law enforcement official said.

“We’re all in this together and we’re banding together to help each other out in any way we can,” said Melinda Urbina, a spokeswoman for the FBI field office in Dallas, where a volunteer employee group set up the food bank now filled with pastas and canned goods in one of the main break rooms.

Some 35,000 FBI employees missed a paycheck last week. That has left many also searching for outside employment, despite limitations on the type of work employees can do and still keep a security clearance or not violate government employment rules.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told CNN she is concerned about the impacts of the shutdown on people traveling in and out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport during Super Bowl LIII.

Atlanta will host the Super Bowl on Feb. 3.

“We’re concerned. It’s frustrating, it’s concerning. We are hosting one of the biggest, most-watched events in the world in just a few weeks and there are real concerns about will our airport be up and functioning in a way that we need it to be,” Bottoms said in an interview Thursday.

Bottoms told CNN that the city even looked into paying some Transportation Security Administration employees through the city’s airport fund but were told that wasn’t possible.

“That’s a question that I asked at the beginning of the shutdown, was that something we could do through our funds associated the airport? And what we’ve been told is that we can’t, essentially. That it’s just not that simple for us to pay them. It is something we would be willing to do through our airport funds … Thus far, we’ve been told that it’s not feasible,” Bottoms said.

President Trump has canceled next week’s trip to Davos, Switzerland, for the entire US delegation due to the shutdown, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Thursday.

The delegation was headed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, which is Jan. 22 to 25.

Here’s what Sanders said in a statement:

“Out of consideration for the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay and to ensure his team can assist as needed, President Trump has canceled his Delegation’s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”

Trump canceled his appearance at the forum last week because of the ongoing government shutdown. Instead, Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin was expected to lead the delegation.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she is “glum” over the state of affairs with the shutdown.

Asked about her mood during the shutdown, she said, “Glum…. I’ve been discouraged.”

“Many of the efforts that a good coalition of the willing have been trying to get advanced, seem to be pulled back by those that don’t want us to get out of the mess that we’re in. And I have a difficult time understanding that,” Murkowski added.

Murkowski said the tit-for-tat between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “wearing on me as a lawmaker.”

She went on to say that she doesn’t think any lawmaker should be leaving DC during the shutdown. 

Murkowski’s scheduled trips to London and Norway were canceled five days ago, she said, because they couldn’t get support for the State Department due to the shutdown. It was not canceled by the administration, she said.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff criticized the actions of President Trump and accused the White House of hypocrisy with administration officials traveling to Davos.

Schiff went on to say that Trump has “acted like he’s in the fifth grade.”

He also said the President irresponsibly revealed a trip to a war zone. (Pelosi had been scheduled to use military aircraft for her trip to Afghanistan.)

The speaker’s office, Schiff said, spoke with the Defense Department, which was caught off guard by the President’s actions.

He said the House would continue its oversight of the administration but would not say if the trip was canceled.

Separately, a Pelosi aide said the trip was supposed to be five days — not seven — as the White House claimed.

President Trump has been watching the coverage of his letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi this afternoon and is “pleased” with the results, a White House official said.

Some background: Trump sent a letter Pelosi today informing her that he was canceling the military aircraft she would have used in an upcoming overseas trip because of the shutdown.

Pelosi was scheduled to leave for her trip this afternoon, two White House officials told CNN.

Trump’s actions come one day after Pelosi asked the President to find a new date for his State of the Union address due to the ongoing shutdown. 

Sen. John Cornyn, a member of Republican leadership, said the shutdown fight between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had “too much childishness.”

Asked about the mood toward the shutdown, Cornyn told reporters it was “foul.”

Asked if Trump should have canceled the military aircraft intended for Pelosi’s overseas trip, he said, “It’s like tit-for-tat. I thought what she did was petty, vindictive, and this certainly doesn’t elevate the debate.”

The State Department is ordering its staff back to work next week, pledging that it will find the money to pay them despite the partial government shutdown.

In an “urgent message” issued today, the 27th day of the shutdown, Deputy Under Secretary for Management Bill Todd told staff that “as a national security agency, it is imperative that the Department of State carries out its mission. We are best positioned to do so with fully staffed embassies, consulates, and domestic offices.”

They’ll start work next week: Todd noted that for most employees, that will be January 22, while for others posted in countries where the work week begins on Sunday, that will be January 20. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s spokesperson has refuted some of what President Trump said about the trip in his letter to her.

Her spokesperson Drew Hammill said in a series of tweets that the military aircraft that was supposed fly a congressional delegation to Afghanistan this weekend, “included a required stop in Brussels for pilot rest.”

“In Brussels, the delegation was scheduled to meet with top NATO commanders, U.S. military leaders and key allies–to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance,” Hammill tweeted.

The trip to Afghanistan, he said, did not include a stop in Egypt. (Trump said Pelosi was headed to Egypt in his letter.)

Pelosi’s spokesperson went on to said that “the purpose of the trip was to express appreciation & thanks to our men & women in uniform for their service & dedication, & to obtain critical national security & intelligence briefings from those on the front lines.”

Two Trump administration officials say the trip to Davos for the World Economic Forum is still on.

It is scheduled for next week, Jan. 22 to 25.

President Trump canceled his appearance at the forum because of the ongoing government shutdown. Instead, Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin will lead the delegation. Here’s who else is going:

White House officials, including acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, began discussing potentially canceling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip early this morning, according to two people with knowledge of how things unfolded.

They felt completely caught off guard when Pelosi publicly released her letter calling on President Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, or deliver it in writing.

Trump has been frustrated by coverage of the shutdown — at times asking why it seemed that the Democrats had the upper hand since he felt they did — and aides agreed this would be the perfect response. 

Despite a White House official telling the pool this was not a response to Pelosi, another official made clear it is “retaliation.” 

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham condemned the letter exchange between President Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Graham called Pelosi’s letter to President Trump asking he move the date of his State of the Union address “very irresponsible and blatantly political.” He also called Trump’s letter to Pelosi denying her military aircraft for an upcoming overseas trip “inappropriate.”

“I wish our political leadership could find the same desire to work for common goals as those who serve our nation in uniform and other capacities,” he wrote in another tweet in the series.

Here are some of his tweets:

Rep. Mark Meadows, President Trump’s close ally and a conservative Republican from North Carolina, told CNN he thinks Trump will give his State of the Union address “somewhere else” and said this will hurt Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Meadows, chairman of House Freedom Caucus, also said Trump is “not backing down” over the wall.

“And each one of our districts has to weigh in on that. And national polls do not necessarily reflect what’s happening in our districts. I can tell you that border barriers and making sure that there’s a compromise, I can tell you what, my district, both moderates, liberals and conservatives are saying that there should be a compromise,” he said.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told CNN that “it demeans the Presidency” for President Trump to have denied military aircraft for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip so abruptly.

He said the move was “so petty.”

What happened: President Trump today wrote a letter to Pelosi informing her that he was canceling the military aircraft she would have used in an upcoming trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan because of the shutdown.

Pelosi was scheduled to leave for her trip this afternoon, two White House officials told CNN.

Trump’s actions come one day after Pelosi asked the President to find a new date for his State of the Union address due to the ongoing shutdown. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to leave this afternoon when President Trump canceled use of the military aircraft, two White House officials said.

 Another source said she is still at the Capitol but was supposed to depart this afternoon.

 The administration “worked with the Air Force and DOD and basically took away the rights to the plane from the speaker.” 

This official argued that Pelosi’s trip would have “guaranteed” that federal workers would not get a paycheck since she would have been out of the country — even though there is no deal currently on the table for those paychecks to go out.

President Trump just wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denying her military aircraft for an upcoming overseas trip.

The President of the United States does have the authority to direct the Department of Defense to not use military assets to support a congressional delegation to military theaters. This support includes air transport and additional security procedures. 

However, it was not immediately clear whether the Department of Defense was notified of the decision prior to the President’s announcement. 

In apparent tit-for-tat, President Trump sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi canceling her trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan during the shutdown.

“Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over,” Trump wrote.

The President’s letter comes a day after Pelosi sent a letter to Trump asking him to move the date of his State of the Union speech due to security staffing concerns during the shutdown.

Read Trump’s full letter below:

Dear Madame Speaker,

Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate. I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washinton negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.

I look forward to seeing you soon and even more forward to watching our open and dangerous Southern Border finally receive the attention, funding, and security it so desperately deserves!

Sincerely,

Donald J. Trump

The House will come back into session today and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will ask for unanimous consent to vacate its vote on the continuing resolution to reopen the government, a Democratic aide on the floor said.

Since a quorum isn’t present, the request for unanimous consent will have to be postponed until Wednesday.

Why Hoyer is making this request: The measure to reopen the government passed unanimously earlier today when Republicans didn’t ask that the vote be recorded, which normally happens.

“This is their mistake and they need to own it,” the Democratic aide said. “Rep. (G.K.) Butterfield (who was presiding in the chair) waited for nearly 30 seconds — plenty of time for them to call for a vote. This is on them.”

What happens next: Republicans will still be on the record passing this continuing resolution until at least then.

Democrats moved to pass their bill to reopen government until Feb. 28.

Normally a Republican would ask for a recorded vote, but no Republican did and so the continuing resolution was passed unanimously.

Drama unfolded: Republicans claimed that GOP Congressman Brett Guthrie tried to object and ask for a recorded vote, but Democrats claimed they didn’t hear it. There was a big debate about the vote between House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Republican Congressman Steve Scalise on the floor.

But a lot of members already left for the airports, since this last vote series was the final series of the week, and Democrats went ahead and recessed.

So where do things stand? Republicans are now on record supporting the Democratic measure to reopen government and they are not happy. 

The federal government has been shut down for 27 days and hundreds of thousands of workers have gone for weeks without pay.

As of now, it’s unclear when the shutdown will end.

In the meantime, here are some tips about what federal workers can and can’t do during the shutdown:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the largest city in the United States is entering a “full-blown crisis” as the partial government shutdown stretches into the 27th day.

New Yorkers will start to feel that crisis on March 1, when the city will lose “half a billion dollars a month” in federal funding, de Blasio said.

The mayor said these funds are needed for food stamp programs and rental assistance.

“My job whenever possible is to reassure people and let them know that we have things well in hand, but when it comes to the shutdown of our federal government things are beginning to spin out of control. Things are happening that no city and no state could possibly compensate for. This is absolutely uncharted territory,” de Blasio said.

The mayor called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to end the shutdown and called on Trump to so the same.

As the partial government shutdown rolls on with no end in sight, many federal employees are scrambling to make ends meet. Some have turned to GoFundMe to raise money for living expenses. 

More than 1,500 campaigns have been set up on the crowdfunding site by furloughed government employees looking for help, GoFundMe spokeswoman Katherine Cichy told CNN.

Together, the campaigns so far have raised more than $300,000.

But these workers may be breaking federal ethics laws with their online fundraising. And the government office that could offer them some clarity on that is closed — because of the shutdown.

The federal law the government employees might be running afoul of is part of the United States Code that deals with the salaries paid to government officials and employees, under a section called “Bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest.” In a nutshell, it says federal employees aren’t supposed to supplement their salaries with outside income. 

If they do, the penalties could be steep: Punishment could be up to five years in prison, the law states. Employees also could be fined up to $50,000 for each violation or the amount of the compensation they received, which ever amount is greater.

President Trump spoke Thursday significantly longer about the border wall than he did on the four Americans who were killed in Syria this week.

Trump, speaking at the Pentagon and in front of service members at an event on missile defense, spoke for 20 seconds about the attack in Syria. Trump, who also blasted Democrats for the stalemate, talked for three minutes and 14 seconds on the border wall and shutdown.

Here’s the entirety of Trump’s remarks on the attack in Syria:

“I want to take a moment to express my deepest condolences to the families of the brave American heroes who laid down their lives yesterday in selfless service to our nation. These are great people, great great people. We will never forget their noble and immortal sacrifice.”

What we know about the Syria attack: ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that killed two US service members, a defense contractor and a Department of Defense civilian, the US Central Command said in a statement. Three other US service members were injured in the attack.

At least 10 other people were killed in the attack in the Syrian city of Manbij on Wednesday.

White House aides appear unsure of how to proceed with President Trump’s State of the Union address after Speaker Pelosi’s letter on Wednesday requesting he move the date.

Trump’s silence on the status of the speech has stretched into a second day.

The White House is weighing alternatives for the venue and style of Trump’s State of the Union, but doesn’t appear to have settled on a plan just yet, people familiar with the matter said.

How Trump sees it: Trump himself has viewed the letter as a political stunt, according to a person who discussed it with him. He did not raise it during a lunch meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday, and did not appear overly incensed by the move. 

Some inside the West Wing have viewed Pelosi’s letter as an opportunity to finally break the traditional State of the Union mold — something previous White Houses have mulled but ultimately decided against.

Alternatives being discussed: Some advisers have pushed Trump to deliver his State of the Union address from the Oval Office in order to continue projecting the message that he is sitting in the White House, waiting for Democrats to make a deal.

However, a primetime address delivered from the Oval Office earlier this month fell flat — a memory that could deter the President from selecting the audience-less venue for an annual tradition he actually likes to observe. 

Trump told people last week he hated the address he delivered from the Oval Office, which he thought looked and sounded awful.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the union representing thousands of correctional workers, sent a letter to US Senators warning them about the problems brewing inside of federal prisons because people aren’t being paid.

The union calls it a “recipe for disaster.”

The letter says this:

“We work in an already dangerous and stressful environment, where going to work distracted or fatigued can lead to serious injury or death. As the shutdown enters its fourth week, many of our members are being required to work mandatory overtime, and do so without pay, while many are preoccupied by how they will pay their rent or mortgage, their car payment, or their electric bill. It is a recipe for disaster because a distraction could cost you your life.”

The letter also points out that many of the workers are in rural areas and that 30 percent are veterans.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she has not yet decided what she’ll do if President Trump refuses to move the date of the State of the Union address, as she requested.

A reporter just asked her this: “If the President comes back to you and says, ‘I want to give the State of the Union at the Capitol on the date we agreed to,’ what will you do then?”

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” she said.

She noted that she hasn’t heard from the White House about her letter in the past 24 hours.

Nancy Pelosi, speaking at a news conference this morning, reiterated her request that President Trump move the date of the State of the Union until after the partial government shutdown is over.

She said the date — Jan. 29 this year — is not a “sacred date.”

“It is a date we agreed to,” she said. “It could be a week later.”

Security at the event, she said, is a major concern for her.

“The continuation of government is the reason for all of the security, as well as the power that is in the room,” Pelosi said.

“They trained for this. They should be paid for this.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she doesn’t understand why the “reality” of the shutdown and what it means for hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers hasn’t sunk in for the Trump administration.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just held a private meeting with Democrats.

She discussed her request to delay the State of the Union, according to a source in the room, and said this:

She also said that law enforcement would rise to the challenge — but they would be doing so without pay.

Any minute now, Pelosi will take reporters’ questions at a press conference.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is scheduled hold her weekly news conference at 10:45 a.m. ET.

She’ll likely be asked about the letter she sent to President Trump yesterday, in which she asked him to move the day of the State of the Union address or deliver it in writing, citing security concerns from the ongoing government shutdown.

In the end, this is a decision that’s up to Pelosi and the House. It’s Pelosi’s prerogative to invite and, while there’s no precedent for it, if she decides the President shouldn’t speak at the Capitol on Jan. 29, the President won’t be speaking at the Capitol on Jan. 29 (at least not to address a joint session of Congress).

The House and the Senate have to pass resolutions to actually green light the State of the Union. Neither have done so yet and, well, Speaker Pelosi controls whether the House passes one at all.

Eric Young, a father of three and a corrections officer who is working without pay during the shutdown, said he’s burning through savings to help pay for his son’s college education.

Young said his wife is out of work with an injury, so he’s the family’s sole breadwinner. His son just graduated from basic training.

“I’m …. digging out of savings to basically try to cover expenses, like registration fees for college tuition,”

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said this morning that the White House has yet to respond to her request for delaying the State of the Union address.

“No, no response,” she told CNN.

Yesterday, Pelosi asked that the White House work with her on finding a new date for Trump’s State of the Union address.

Keep in mind, in order to green light the State of the Union, both the House and the Senate have to pass resolutions. Neither have done so yet — and Pelosi controls whether the House passes one at all.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi shook things up by suggesting President Trump work with her to reschedule the Jan. 29 State of the Union address — or just submit it in writing.

The stated reason was security concerns — both the Department of Homeland Security and US Secret Service currently aren’t funded during the shutdown — but it was widely viewed as a move to jam the White House and shake up a dynamic that has been firmly set in “frozen” for weeks.

The lack of official White House response (or fiery tweet in response) has surprised Democrats up to this point, according to several aides. 

Meanwhile, a bipartisan proposal in the Senate to get out of the shutdown circulated Wednesday. The plan promised border security negotiations in exchange for an immediate re-opening of the government.

The White House lobbied Republicans against signing the letter. Democrats wanted at least 20 GOP signatures to prove it had legs, but the signatures fell far short of the goal. Consider the letter dead.

The bottom line is this: On the 27th day of the government shutdown, we’re at a point where it’s all power plays and positioning. In other words, there is still no end in sight.

Cardi B is upset and worried. And she wants the world to know.

In a profanity-laced video, the rapper on Wednesday night addressed the ongoing government shutdown.

Cardi B said she’s feeling anxious and helpless as the shutdown drags on.

“I feel like we need to take some action,” she says. “I don’t know what type of action … because this is not what I do. But … I’m scared.”

The Trump administration has been calling back furloughed workers and changing their status to essential. They are still working without pay — but the move is allowing the government to do more functions during the shut down. 

It turns out the administration has fairly wide latitude to determine what governmental functions are essential and which can be suspended during a shutdown, according to Alice Rivlin, who led the Clinton White House’s Office of Management and Budget through what is now the second-longest shutdown.  

For example, when the government shutdown under Clinton during the holidays, there was a lot of debate about the Christmas tree.

“I said I didn’t think the Christmas tree was essential. That one got a lot of screams and a lot of volunteers (to keep it lit and operating),” she said.  “I thought that was unfortunate. I thought we wanted to make as clear as possible that the shutdown was inconveniencing people.”  

A White House official familiar with preparations says “at this point” Trump still plans to deliver his State of the Union speech as scheduled at the Capitol on Jan 29. 

“The State of the Union address is on the 29th,” the official said. That’s the plan “at this point,” the official added. 

On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote Trump a letter asking him to move the day of the State of the Union address or deliver it in writing, citing security concerns from the ongoing government shutdown.

Remember: It’s actually up to Speaker Pelosi and the House if the President speaks in the chamber. It’s Pelosi’s prerogative to invite and while there’s no precedent for it, if she decides the President shouldn’t speak at the Capitol on that Jan. 29, the President won’t speak at the Capitol on Jan. 29.

The House and the Senate have to pass resolutions to actually green light the State of the Union. Neither have done so yet, and Speaker Pelosi controls whether the House passes one at all.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that President Trump should stop negotiating with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and instead ramp up the pressure on rank-and-file Democrats.

Gingrich, Trump’s ally who in the 1990s presided over one of the longest government shutdowns in US history, said he would advise Trump to hold political rallies in Democratic districts where the President performed well in 2016, with the goal of winning just enough Democratic support to break the current impasse.

“My advice would be: Why don’t you schedule three rallies in three Democratic districts and have people show up — see how Democrats feel about that kind of direct pressure?” Gingrich told CNN in a phone interview Wednesday. “He ought to start planning right now. Reaching out to individual Democrats and ignoring Pelosi and Schumer.”

Asked when he believed a new threshold would be reached when it comes to the length of the shutdown, Gingrich responded, “Late February.”

The shutdown, now in its fourth week, has delayed the release of several reports ranging from new home sales to soybean purchases. Much of the data is normally published by the Commerce Department, but other agencies like the Treasury and the Department of Agriculture are also closed, or operating with razor-thin staffs.

On Wednesday, retailers didn’t get a report on December sales, because the Commerce Department remains unfunded. It leaves them in the dark on how Americans spent their money during the holiday season.

Farmers would normally have looked to a report on world markets to help determine what to plant this spring, but it wasn’t published by the Department of Agriculture last week.

If the shutdown lasts through January, it’s unlikely the government will be able to publish its next report on GDP – one of the broadest measures of economic activity that’s closely watched by investors.

It’s due on January 30: The report would cover the fourth quarter of 2018. There is some concern about how the economy did during those three months because of the tightening financial markets and a turmoil in the global economy, said Ryan Sweet, head of monetary policy research at Moody’s Analytics.

The House passed a $12 billion disaster relief bill, with a clean stopgap spending bill attached that would open the government until Feb. 8.

The vote was 237-187. Six Republicans joined with Democrats in passing the bill.

The bill does not include funding for President Trump’s long-promised border wall. It is not expected to be taken up by the Senate. 

The measure is the latest effort by House Democrats to reopen government. 

The House voted yesterday on a clean continuing resolution that would open the government until Feb. 1, but it failed to pass because it needed a two-thirds majority in this instance due to the way it was brought up on the floor. 

And tomorrow, the House is set to vote on another clean continuing resolution that keeps the government open until Feb. 28.

One thing to note: The White House issued another veto threat today on the disaster relief bill. The White House expressed the administration’s view on aspects of the bill, including $600 million in nutrition assistance to Puerto Rico, which it deemed “excessive and unnecessary” and other disaster relief efforts, including $16 million to the Energy Department’s Office of Electricity for technical assistance for recently-declared disasters.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was asked today if President Trump’s State of the Union should move forward as planned.

Here’s what he said:

“Well, what is the State of the Union? The government is closed because of President Trump. If it continues to be closed on the 29th, I think it’s a good idea to delay it until the government is open.”

Why we’re talking about this: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this morning asked that the White House work with her on finding a new date for Trump’s State of the Union address.

Keep in mind, in order to green light the State of the Union, both the House and the Senate have to pass resolutions. Neither have done so yet — and Pelosi controls whether the House passes one at all.

President Trump has officially signed a bill that guarantees backpay for federal workers who have been furloughed during the government’s partial shutdown.

Here’s what’s in the act:

The measure “requires the compensation of government employees for wages lost, work performed, or leave used during a lapse in appropriations that begins on or after December 22, 2018, and entitles excepted employees to use leave during a lapse in appropriations.”

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN he has 10 signatures on his bipartisan letter to end the shutdown, but acknowledged that he understands the White House is privately lobbying senators behind the scenes to not sign his letter.

“Rather than a letter maybe the best thing to do is get a handful of people from both sides to see if they are willing to meet with the President,” the South Carolina lawmaker said.

Graham said he is trying to see if the President will meet with some members of the group and just see where it goes. 

“The only way we are going to resolve this is to get people in a room that can talk. I am hopeful if any discussion might get started there might be a pathway forward in the Senate,” he said.

Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher attended today’s bipartisan meeting at the White House and said Democrats in the room told President Trump that they support a physical border wall.

“I thought it was useful for me and my Republicans colleagues to hear that there are a lot of Democrats who said they support border security and specifically a physical barrier. There were people in the room that said, ‘Back home, I tell my constituents, I’m for a physical barrier,’” the Wisconsin lawmaker told CNN.  

Trump, who met with members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus meeting in the Situation Room, was “calm,” Gallagher said. The meeting, he said, “was not combative.”

“The President said, ‘Let’s just negotiate this now, let’s cut the deal now,’ which I can sort of see his point on that,” Gallagher said.

“I did sense a genuine attempt on the part of the President on the part of the Vice President to reach out to the other side and figure out okay, ‘How do we get this done?’ ‘What do you guys need?’ ‘Where do we agree and disagree?’”

Washington DC chef Chef José Andrés and his team opened a whole café today dedicated to feeding federal workers who are furloughed during the government shutdown.

Andrés’ nonprofit World Central Kitchen is overseeing the new effort. The kitchen and café, located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the US Capitol and the White House, opened it’s doors Wednesday

It will serve a rotating menu of free hot meals between 11 a.m. ET and 6 p.m. ET daily to federal workers with a valid ID — along with meals for workers to take home to their families.

The Secret Service would be prepared to provide security for the State of the Union address, even during a government shutdown, according to a law enforcement official. Most of the agency’s employees are considered essential and have been working without pay for the past several weeks.

That has included most personnel responsible for planning security measures around the address, the official said. Meetings have continued to take place about the event during the shutdown. The official said security planning for the State of the Union started months ago, before the shutdown began.

Still, some employees who would be involved in the planning are currently on furlough and not working — both at Secret Service and at other government agencies. That includes some people in intelligence and logistics roles.

Because the State of the Union is a designated “National Special Security Event,” it requires assets and support not just from the United States Secret Service but across multiple government agencies, including some closed by the shutdown, a separate law enforcement source told CNN. That could be difficult to plan and execute because of the lapse in funding, the source said.

Some context: Of 7,222 Secret Service employees, 5,978 are considered essential and would have to work unpaid during a shutdown.

A member who attended President Trump’s meeting with the House’s bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus described it as a respectful exchange of ideas.

The member said both sides agreed to keep talking, but there were no signs they are closer to a deal.

In fact, Democrats who attended the meeting kept pushing to open government first before immigration talks. But Trump didn’t get into any feisty or angry exchanges and the tone was overall positive.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, railing on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said President Trump should still deliver his State of the Union address on Jan. 29 before Congress.

 McCarthy, fired up, said: “He should come here, give the speech,” telling Pelosi to “act like a speaker.”

“It is not a security issue — that’s politics. It’s pure politics.”

Asked if Trump should still come to the House chamber on Jan. 29 even if Pelosi rescinds the invite, McCarthy said, “Yes, absolutely. That was the invitation.”

CORRECTION: A previous headline contained an incorrect title for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

White House officials are privately lobbying senators to not sign a bipartisan letter calling on President Trump to reopen the government for three weeks while immigration talks take shape, two sources said.

The legislative affairs office is running this effort, the sources said.

About that letter: A draft letter is being circulated from Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Chris Coons that would seek to get the President to reopen the government with a three-week continuing resolution while the Senate debates a way forward on the President’s budget request for border security.

The letter is just a draft at this point, but is being circulated. We do not know who will sign it, and we do not know when it will be sent.

Republican Senator John Kennedy called Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s request to move the date of the State of the Union address a “tactic” that is “making things worse.”

Kennedy suggested that President Trump should speak before the Senate instead if he is unwelcome in the House. 

“I think the President ought to go ahead and give the State of the Union as normal,” Kennedy said. “He can come to the Senate if Mrs. Pelosi doesn’t want him to come to the House. I just think that sort of tactic is making things worse.”

Typically, the State of the Union is given before a joint session of Congress with both senators and representatives in attendance, although the Speaker of the House is the one that invites the president to speak.

He said the real problem with the shutdown negotiations is that too many people in DC are “drunk on certainty and virtue.”

Kennedy said he spoke to the President about the shutdown for nearly two hours while on Air Force One on Monday and left with the impression that Trump is dug in. 

A meeting between a group of bipartisan lawmakers, President Trump and his team was “constructive,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.

Trump met with members of the House’s Problem Solvers Caucus at the White House today to discuss the shutdown.

A key point to remember: This isn’t a group that can make a deal — they aren’t large enough and they aren’t empowered by leadership to do anything.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called the government shutdown a “self-inflicted wound” that is a “negative” for the economy.

“You can’t have a democracy where you refuse to compromise,” Dimon said while speaking at a Manhattan luncheon hosted by the Economic Club of New York.

Dimon added that he hopes “there’s a deal to be done.” He advocated giving President Trump money for border security. In exchange, the Democrats should ask for progress on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or other immigration policies.

What Trump officials have said about economy: White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett acknowledged Tuesday that the White House underestimated the negative impact on the United States’ economic growth from the ongoing government shutdown.

He told Fox Business Network the White House “found that actually the damage is a little bit worse because of government contractors, something that was excluded from our first analysis.”

Hassett added that diminished spending by furloughed employees will be made up once they receive back pay after the shutdown ends, alleviating some of the damage.

Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowksi, Susan Collins and Rob Portman just met in Collins’ office to talk about the partial government shutdown.

Collins of Maine and Murkowksi of Alaska called on President Trump to agree temporarily to reopen government.

“Shutting down government is not the way to achieve” border security goal, Collins said. 

Where things stand: It’s the 26th day of the government shutdown, and lawmakers have yet to reach a deal. A small group of bipartisan lawmakers are expected to meet with Trump at the White House today to discuss the shutdown.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the State of the Union, scheduled for Jan. 29, is “off” so long as the government is shut down.

Earlier today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to President Trump, asking him and the White House to work with her on finding a new date for the speech.

“The speaker is the one who invites the President to speak at the joint session, and she has said as long as government is shut down, we’re not going to be doing business as usual,” Hoyer told CNN.

Remember: It’s the House speaker’s prerogative to invite the President to give the State of the Union. While there’s no precedent for it (that we’re aware of), if Pelosi decides the President shouldn’t go to the Capitol to speak on Jan. 29, the President will not go on Jan. 29

In order to green light the State of the Union, both the House and the Senate have to pass resolutions. Neither have done so yet — and Pelosi controls whether the House passes one at all.

Later, Hoyer’s office backtracked on the congressman’s comments. His spokesperson Mariel Saez told CNN in a statement that “Mr. Hoyer had not read speaker Pelosi’s letter and mischaracterized it.”

Watch the moment:

1:21 p.m. ET: This post was updated with a statement from Hoyer’s spokesperson.

Bipartisan lawmakers from the House Problem Solvers Caucus are heading to the White House today to discuss the shutdown.

The Democrats in that group are…

The group released this statement ahead of the meeting:

“Over the last weeks, we have been listening to our constituents and speaking with our fellow Members of Congress — in both parties and in both chambers. There is strong agreement across the aisle and around the country: We must reopen the government. Our security, safety, and economy have been compromised, and millions of families are suffering.
There is also strong agreement that if we reopen the government, the possibility exists to work together and find common ground to tackle some of our country’s toughest problems and fix them. But that conversation can only begin in earnest once the government is reopened. We accepted the White House’s invitation to meet today to convey that message.”

Keep in mind: This isn’t a group that can make a deal — they aren’t large enough and they aren’t empowered by leadership to do, well, anything. So it’s a meeting. And that’s about it.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi this morning asked that the White House work with her on finding a new date for Trump’s State of the Union address, but make no mistake: This is up to her.

It’s the House speaker’s prerogative to invite the President to give the State of the Union. While there’s no precedent for it (that we’re aware of), if Pelosi decides the President shouldn’t go to the Capitol to speak on Jan. 29, the President will not go on Jan. 29

Keep in mind, in order to green light the State of the Union, both the House and the Senate have to pass resolutions. Neither have done so yet — and Pelosi controls whether the House passes one at all.

That said, at least one congressional Republican has called Pelosi’s date-change request “far-fetched.”

He continued: “That seems pretty far-fetched. I don’t think that’s going to go over very well with the American people.”

There’s a draft letter being circulated from two senators that asks the President to reopen the government with a three-week continuing resolution while the Senate debates his border wall funding demand.

The letter is from GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons.

Remember: The letter is just a draft at this point, but it is being circulated.

We’re not sure who else will sign it, and we do not know when it will be sent.

Here’s what the letter says:

Dear President Trump,
We write to you as a bipartisan group of Senators committed to resolving our current budget stalemate by strengthening border security and ending the partial government shutdown.
As you know, on January 6, your Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, submitted an appropriation request for addressing the humanitarian and security challenges at our nation’s southern border. We believe that such requests deserve consideration, through regular order, a process we support. We respectfully request that you join us in supporting a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) of three weeks to give Congress time to develop and vote on a bipartisan agreement that addresses your request. We commit to working to advance legislation that can pass the Senate with substantial bipartisan support.
During those three weeks, we will make our best efforts following regular order in the appropriate committees and mark up bipartisan legislation relating to your request. This would include debating and voting on investments on the Southern border that are necessary, effective, and appropriate to accomplish that goal.

Trish Gilbert, executive vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says air travel now is less safe than it was before the shutdown began.

The bottom line is it’s still safe to fly right now — but that could change the longer the shutdown drags on.

Issues like understaffing and employees quitting (because they have been furloughed or asked to work without pay) will only get worse with time. Other issues that aren’t a problem now may be in the future.

For instance, while the government is shut down pilots can’t get their licenses renewed and new air traffic controllers and other critical positions can’t be trained to assume their roles.

Watch more from Gilbert:

President Trump’s team is prepared to craft his State of the Union address around the shutdown — specifically targeting Democrats — if it’s still ongoing by the day of the speech, an administration official said.

Stephen Miller and other White House speechwriters have been working on the address for weeks now.

Trump is due to give his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, which will be the 39th day of the government shutdown if lawmakers do not act to end it (or if Trump vetoes their plan).

Earlier today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asked Trump to move the day of the State of the Union, citing security concerns during the partial government shutdown.

When the partial government shutdown went into effect last month, hundreds of thousands of federal employees were furloughed.

But as the partial shutdown drags on into its fourth full week, many of those furloughed workers have been deemed essential and have been ordered to return to work — but without pay.

The largest of the switches from furloughed to essential is happening at the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS will officially be recalling tens of thousands of workers — 36,000 of them — to process tax filings and refunds.

Here are a few more examples:

Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Trump asking to move the day of the State of the Union citing security concerns during the partial government shutdown.

“Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29,” she wrote.

Trump is scheduled to deliver the State of the Union address in person before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 29.

Here’s the full letter Pelosi sent to Trump:

The White House has been trying to peel moderate Democrats away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Its first effort at that strategy failed yesterday: Said moderate Democrats were invited to the White House for lunch — and they didn’t show.

Another group of moderates — this time the bipartisan membership of the Problem Solvers Caucus — have been invited today. They are expected to attend.

The group attempts to serve as a middle ground of sorts for both parties, which generally makes the base of each party suspect of their actions. But they’re generally always willing to talk — and that’s precisely what will happen today with the President.

But remember: This isn’t a group that can make a deal. They aren’t large enough and they aren’t empowered by leadership to do, well, anything. So it’s a meeting. And that’s about it. 

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was just asked whether President Trump is concerned the economy is being adversely impacted as a result of the shutdown. 

She told reporters that the administration is focused on the “long-term economic goals” of the administration.

In a phone call to supporters on Tuesday, President Trump encouraged his backers to stick together and call their representatives in Congress to express support for the wall, according to a person familiar with the conversation.

Trump said it wasn’t a political argument but a matter of national security and warned of the dangers of illegal immigration in dire terms, including the safety and security argument he’s been making in public.

Trump repeated several times that he doesn’t plan to back off his demands and needs his supporters to back him up.

At the same time, Trump appeared to downplay the effects of the shutdown on workers or the functioning of government. 

“People are very impressed with how well government is working with the circumstances that we’re under,” Trump said.

The quotes were reported by AP and confirmed by CNN.

Talks to reach a deal to reopen parts of the government have largely stalled as the shutdown continues into day 26.

Here is what we’re keeping an eye on today:

It’s the 26th day of the partial government shutdown, and the bipartisan Senate “gang” is still laboring to pull a proposal together that could garner the votes — and presidential support — to re-open the government.

Meanwhile, the White House will take a second swing at convincing rank-and-file Democrats to peel away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

But note: Neither of those are things that will lead to an outcome, lawmakers and aides say. That means day 26 of the government shutdown will soon turn to day 27 — and beyond.

Meetings aren’t nothing: People talking is better than people not talking. But aides say Democratic leaders and the President haven’t spoken in nearly a week, which means everything remains frozen for the time being. 

The Internal Revenue Service is recalling tens of thousands of additional federal employees with less than two weeks before tax filing season begins.

The federal tax collector said Tuesday in an undated government shutdown plan it would call back an additional 36,000 federal employees, bringing the total number of those working at the IRS during the government shutdown to more than 46,000, or roughly 57% of the workforce.   

The move will allow Americans to get their tax refunds on time, but at the expense of the IRS employees, most of whom won’t be paid. 

This year’s tax filing season begins on Jan 28.

Keep reading.

Texas lawmakers sent a joint letter to President Trump opposing the use of disaster funds to build a his long-promised border wall.

In the joint letter, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas congressional delegation and Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz wrote:

“We strongly support securing the border with additional federal resources including tactical infrastructure, technology, ports of entry improvements and personnel. However, we are strongly opposed to using funds appropriated by Congress for disaster relief and mitigation for Texas for any unintended purpose. As Texans continue to rebuild and prepare for future disasters, these funds, appropriated by Congress to be spent directly on rebuilding and mitigation, are critical to helping our communities recover, preventing future flooding and protecting our constituents.”

The White House sent invitations to a bipartisan group of lawmakers for a meeting Tuesday afternoon aimed at finding a solution to ending the government shutdown — now in its 25th day as the longest in US history — but Democrats said they weren’t going.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed no Democrats were expected to attend, listing instead nine Republican members of the House who will.

“Today, the President offered both Democrats and Republicans the chance to meet for lunch at the White House,” Sanders said in a statement. “Unfortunately, no Democrats will attend. The President looks forward to having a working lunch with House Republicans to solve the border crisis and reopen the government. It’s time for the Democrats to come to the table and make a deal.”

About those invites: Several House Democrats who had been invited to the White House told CNN in advance of the meeting they had been given little to no information about what the meeting would entail and have either rejected the invite or wouldn’t confirm whether they would attend.

The invitations did not all go out at once, but over the course of Monday night, and consisted of a three-line email asking only if the member would “attend lunch at the White House tomorrow, January 15 at 12:30 PM,” according to a copy read to CNN. The email was sent on behalf of the President.

Seven of the House Republicans who came to the White House for lunch spoke to reporters following their meal with the President, vice president, and other administration officials.

The consensus amongst the Republicans: “Disappointment.”

We’re 25 days into the government shutdown, and it was still unclear if — or how — the Republicans were willing to negotiate with their Democratic colleagues. 

Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington indicated that President Trump wanted to compromise, criticizing Democrats who “won’t even meet the President halfway.”

Indiana Rep. Susan Brooks implored Democrats “to come to the table,” adding that she would “like to see proposals going back and forth every day.”

Michigan Rep. Jack Bergman, who was not on the list of attendees provided by the White House, also lamented the lack of Democrats negotiating.

“I came here to work with my colleagues from all sides of the political spectrum on issues that are of importance to all of us,” he said. “We owe it to our citizens and we owe it to the people who want to come here legally.”

House Democrats are continuing their efforts to put pressure on Senate Republicans with another series of bills this week.

They are offering three continuing resolutions to reopen all closed agencies until February. Here’s when they plan to bring up the bills:

But remember: GOP Leader McConnell’s position remains unchanged — he will not bring anything to the Senate floor without President Trump’s support. Trump has made explicitly clear he will not support reopening the government before a deal on border wall funding is completed. 

The former National Park Service director who ordered national parks closed during the 2013 government shutdown criticized the decision to keep the parks open during the current shutdown at a hearing today.  

“The decision by President Donald Trump and DOI Secretary Ryan Zinke to leave the parks open and to furlough the NPS is an abdication of their stewardship responsibilities to our national parks,”Jon Jarvis said at a hearing on the government shutdown held by House Democrats. (Note: As of the new year, Zinke is no longer Interior Secretary, but was secretary when the shutdown began in December.)

Jarvis worked for the park service for four decades and was appointed director in 2009 by President Barack Obama. He retired in 2017.  

Jarvis also criticized the decision to use entrance fee funds to fund some park operations. Those activities are normally funded by Congress.  

 “Now on one hand I am positive that the employees are happy to return to work and be paid. On the other hand, these funds were intended by law to enhance the visitor experience and the resource and not for basic operations. By burning through these accounts for operations, the parks will not be able to use the funds to address their maintenance backlogs or to improve the park for the visitor,” Jarvis said.  

Another former senior park service leader who testified at the hearing said the shutdown leaves parks unprepared for the summer travel season.  

“Irreparable harm has occurred already occurred to park operations as well and will steadily increase the longer the shutdown goes on. When and if the shutdown ends, that interrupted work will begin, but much of it cannot be accomplished in the time remaining before the onset of the busy summer visitor season,” said Dick Ring, a former associate director of the park service and superintendent of several parks including the Everglades.  

Several House Democrats who have been invited to the White House to meet with President Trump said they have been given little to no information about what the meeting would entail and have either rejected the invite or wouldn’t confirm whether they would attend.

The invitations did not all go out at once, but over the course of the evening last night. Reps. Stephanie Murphy of Florida and Lou Correa of California, two co-chairs of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition, both declined the invitations, according to sources. 

White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp confirmed that rank-and-file Democrats were invited to the White House.

“We want to work with rank-and-file Democrats. Obviously what we’re seeing right now is that Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi has refused to provide a counter offer … So we’re gonna talk to those individuals, to those Democrats, see if we can make some inroads. The President also will be bringing over the Problem Solvers Caucus so that’s another opportunity to talk to congressional members. We want to be able to come to a solution and negotiate,” she said.

Some background on the meeting: Trump and his team are deploying an age-old legislative strategy — go after the most vulnerable members of the opposite party and try and pick them off. In this case, invitations were sent last night to a group of moderate House Democrats hailing from districts Trump won in 2016. This is the next play — following last week’s public messaging blitz — to try and shake loose congressional Democrats who, to this point, have shown very little day light between one another.

As to whether there are splits in the Democratic caucus the President can take advantage of, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said this: “We are totally united. Totally.” 

House majority leader Steny Hoyer said if the government is still partially shut down next week, the House will not be in recess.

Hoyer said that doesn’t mean lawmakers be in Washington the entire week. On days they’re not there, members will be given a 24-hour notice to come back and vote on a potential deal.

Representatives were scheduled to have a work period in their districts, opposed to being in session in Washington.

The Transportation Security Administration said security checkpoint wait times hit 88 minutes at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport yesterday. Wait times nationwide, however, were still low, according to a TSA a statement.

Across US airports, unscheduled absences among TSA staffers are significantly higher than they were a year ago.

“Yesterday’s complete figures show that TSA experienced a national rate of 6.8 percent of unscheduled absences compared to a 2.5 percent rate one year ago on the same day,” the TSA said in a statement.

On Monday, the airport’s Director of Communications Elise Durham told CNN the long security lines were in part due to short staffing at TSA checkpoints.

“Mondays are always busy days for us at Hartsfield-Jackson, but I can tell you that we are down a few security lanes because of the shutdown,” Durham said.

CNN’s Omar Jimenez shot video of the line of people waiting to go through security at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

It’s the 25th day of the shutdown, now the longest in US history, and talks are gridlocked.

The pain that usually jars lawmakers back to the table to make a deal hasn’t had that effect yet: Hundreds of thousands missed their paychecks last week. Active duty members of the US Coast Guard — 40,000-plus of them — miss their first paychecks Tuesday. Growing wait lines due to Transportation Security Administration absences are plaguing major airports. Congress has ground to a virtual halt.

With things at a stalemate, here are two key events we’re watching today:

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s position remains unchanged: He will not bring anything to the Senate floor without President Trump’s support. President Trump has made explicitly clear he will not support re-opening the government before a deal on border wall funding is completed. 

McConnell isn’t feeling pressured to buckle on the above point by his conference, according to several senators and senior aides.

Yes, it’s true senators are frustrated and most, in candid moments, would acknowledge being completely flummoxed by what the President would accept for a final deal. But they are largely behind McConnell — and that shows no sign of changing any time soon. 

This position infuriates Democrats, who have said repeatedly, in just about every venue and platform possible, McConnell should force the President’s hand and bring the House proposals to the floor. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly gone after McConnell for abdicating his responsibility as majority leader.

The biggest hurdle right now is the diametrically opposed positions of Democrats and the President:

Another huddle, at least in the minds of Democratic senators CNN’s Phil Mattingly has spoken to, is they simply have no sense where the President stands on any given day — something their Republican colleagues don’t disagree with. 

“It’s short-term deal, it’s long-term deal, it’s $5 billion, it’s $2 billion, it’s $1.6 billion, it’s DACA, it’s no DACA,” one Democratic senator said last night, ticking through the somewhat head-spinning positions the White House and President have floated in the last three weeks. “It’s just tough to keep up, let alone try to find negotiating space.” 

The White House is reaching out to rank-and-file moderate Democrats to try and peel off support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A bipartisan group of senators met to try and jumpstart even a semblance of talks on re-opening the government.

The thing is: Both of these things are — according to aides in both parties — ultimately going to be unsuccessful. More importantly, they underscore that the respective leaders (the key players in this now 25 day drama of nothingness) are still not talking, and currently have no plans to do so. 

Here’s the bottom line: There’s nothing that happened Monday, despite the incorporation of the new Senate bipartisan “gang,” despite the White House push to peel off House Democrats, to move this closer to resolution.

If anything, it was a demonstration just how far apart things remain — and likely will for weeks to come, aides involved say. 

We’re 25 days into this shutdown. Hundreds of thousands missed their paychecks last week. Active duty members of the US Coast Guard will miss their first paychecks today. Growing wait lines due to TSA absences are plaguing major airports. Congress has ground to a virtual halt. 

This is the pain that’s supposed to jar lawmakers back to the table to make a deal. And it’s not happening. At least not yet. 

Southwest Airlines has been trying to begin service to Hawaii — but the government shutdown is preventing it from getting full certification from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The airline completed several steps in the process with the FAA prior to the shutdown, but the flights can not begin until the final steps are complete. The FAA employees who have been working with Southwest on the certification have been furloughed.

Southwest is planning to provide service from four California locations to four airports in Hawaii as well as inter-island service. 

A group of bipartisan senators who met to discuss the government shutdown today ran run into significant hurdles today, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. 

“It was rough going,” a source said, noting President Trump has repeatedly rejected proposals that immediately reopen the government before negotiations to lock in a final border security deal can be reached — something that remains a central sticking point.

The sources acknowledged it was just the first meeting and the senators are trying to get something done, but at the moment are largely stuck in the same place.

That said: “People are talking, and that’s better than the alternative,” one of the sources said.

The White House is planning to invite a group of moderate House Democrats to meet with President Trump, two sources said.

Democrats from districts President Trump won in 2016, including members of the Problem Solvers Caucus, will be invited to the meeting, according to two GOP sources. Their hope is that freshmen Democrats in these swing districts might be more interested in getting credit for looking like they want to problems than in denying Trump a wall. 

The goal: They are trying and isolate and peel off these Democrats. House Democratic aides note that there has been no sign these Democrats are in danger of leaving the fold. 

The White House had put together a draft list of the Democrats they’d invite, according to a White House official, who said they’d only invite members who they believe would be willing to buck House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Multiple sources have suggested the White House is considering a shift from hammering Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over their refusal to support a wall — a tactic that has gotten them nowhere — to engaging new, moderate Democrats in the hopes of cobbling together a bipartisan deal that includes some wall funding.

At least 12 senators are currently meeting in Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s hideaway in the Capitol basement to talk about the shutdown.

Here are the senators spotted going in:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, raised concerns about the “indefinite state of impasse.”

Asked about President Trump rejecting a three-week bill to open government, Murkowski told CNN, “Well, then Mr. President when are you going to help us open the government?”

She is among at least three Republican senators who suggested they would break with Trump and support appropriations bills that do not include funding for a wall.

More than 1,000 federal workers per 100,000 Alaska workers are affected by the shutdown.

President Trump continued to make the case for border security to the Farm Bureau convention, casting blame on Democrats.

He continued: “They will not approve the measures we need to keep America safe.” 

Trump added that the US Department of Agriculture is working to help farmers impacted by the shutdown and again said — without evidence — that many of those affected by the shutdown have expressed their support. 

Earlier, he introduced Arizona rancher Jim Chilton, who has a ranch on the US-Mexico border, and invited him on stage to make brief remarks. 

“Mr. President, we need a wall,” he said, receiving a standing ovation from the crowd.

President Trump continued to make a pitch for his border wall during a speech to the Farm Bureau’s annual convention, alluding to the political fight on day 24 of the shutdown. 

“When it comes to keeping the American people safe, I will never, ever back down. I didn’t need this fight,” he told the farmers’ convention. 

He didn’t use the word “Democrats” but named Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and continued to suggest that he isn’t getting border wall funding because Democrats don’t want to give him the win ahead of the 2020 election.  

“We’re dealing against people who think that if they can stop me from building a wall… They think that’s a good thing for 2020,” he said. 

Trump told the crowd he isn’t building the wall as a “political thing”: “I’m doing it because we have to do it

He continued: “We’re gonna have a wall, we’re gonna have a barrier.” 

Trump said that he has “built a lot more” and “renovated” parts of existing border wall. He listed off a series of statistics. 

Trump also spoke extensively about immigration laws and the visa lottery program and appeared to strike an optimistic tone about immigration reform. 

“We’re fighting hard. We’re fighting very hard for you,” Trump said, telling the group that he is “making a lot of progress.” It’s unclear what progress he was referring to.

The Food and Drug Administration will continue to monitor and respond to outbreaks of food poisoning and the flu, as well as food and medical product recalls.

The agency will also keep screening imported food and medical products. And the FDA says it will address public health issues that pose an imminent threat.

But remember: About 41% of the FDA is off the job due to the shutdown, and some employees caution that response time to emergencies could be slower.

The FDA can call back furloughed employees in an emergency, but they’d only stay as long as needed to address that situation.

Tribes that rely on federal funds for services, such as health clinics and food pantries, are affected by the shutdown.

About 1.9 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives get funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is operated by the Department of the Interior, one of the agencies hit by the shutdown.

For one tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan, the cost amounts to $100,000 each day the government is shut down, The New York Times reported.

President Trump is digging in his heels on his demand for a border wall, telling aides and allies that he believes he is winning the battle for public support.

Over the last 24 hours, Trump has privately touted a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicating that public support for a border wall has increased to 42% from 34% last year, a source familiar with his comments told CNN.

But a CNN/SSRS survey published Sunday shows a majority of the public blames the President, with 55% saying he is more responsible for the shutdown than are Democrats in Congress, while 32% say the blame rests mostly with the Democrats.

CNN’s Omar Jimenez shot video of the line of people waiting to go through security at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The line wraps through baggage claim:

Earlier today, the airport’s website estimated that wait times to get through security were more than an hour for some checkpoints.

Elise Durham, the airport’s director of communications, told CNN the long security lines were in part due to short staffing at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.

While the lines are long, they are moving, Durham said. 

About 380,000 federal employees are required to stay home, while another 420,000 must work without pay. Many of them missed their first paychecks on Friday.

But congressional lawmakers and President Trump himself aren’t missing any paychecks.

That’s because the salaries of the President and members of Congress are written into the Constitution and aren’t funded through annual appropriations.

That said, remember:

We’re entering the fourth full week of the government shutdown, and talks are frozen.

House and Senate are both scheduled to come back into session this afternoon — but things are a little in flux due to the weather and subsequent closure of the federal government in Washington. 

So there’s not much on today’s agenda: There are currently no meetings scheduled and no new proposals being traded, aides in both parties say. 

Air traffic controllers are starting to feel the pressure from the partial government shutdown, according to Dan McCabe, a spokesman with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. 

McCabe expressed concern about the impact the partial shutdown will have on the Super Bowl traffic that will flow through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the coming weeks.

Remember: It’s still safe to fly. While agencies like the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration are understaffed because of the shutdown, experts say there’s no reason to believe safety is compromised.

Security at airport checkpoints across the country is just as effective as ever, and average wait times are within TSA standards, an agency spokesman said. 

But things could get less safe over time: Just because air travel is still safe now does not mean that a prolonged government shutdown wouldn’t have a potentially dangerous impact.

Issues like understaffing and employees quitting will only get worse with time.

The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is struggling with TSA short staffing.

The airport’s Director of Communications, Elise Durham, told CNN the long security lines happening this morning at the airport are in part due to short staffing at TSA checkpoints.

While the lines are long, they are moving, Durham said. 

Earlier today, the airport’s website estimated that wait times to get through security was more than an hour for some checkpoints.

Tim Babcock and Jay Anthony arrived at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at 7 a.m. for a 10:15 a.m. flight to Dallas. The lines for security were so long that they’re winding around inside the airport.

Here’s the footage they shot:

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday he advised the President to agree to re-open the government for three weeks, hold negotiations over border security and the wall, and if they ended up failing, then declare a national emergency. 

What this means: Don’t read this as a sign that Graham is fleeing the President’s side — this is far more about Graham understanding that negotiations are more fruitful with a new deadline (or anvil hanging over one’s head) than anything else. That’s something that simply doesn’t exist in this current scenario, where there is no deadline — or end to a shutdown in sight.

But it is worth noting that Graham has repeatedly tried to find ways to re-open the government and set the stage for future negotiations over a period of time.

And remember: the President explicitly asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the Situation Room if she would give him money for his border wall in a month if he agreed to immediately open the government. Pelosi said no.

As Washington DC is snowed in, shutdown talks are still at a complete and total impasse. It’s day 24 of the shutdown, and things are just stuck in the same place as they have been for three weeks. Period. 

Bottom line: The dynamics haven’t changed. Between President Trump and Democratic leaders, someone will have to blink, and neither side is either willing — or, according to key players on both sides, currently has the political incentive — to do so. The expectation at the moment is that this week will be just as fruitless as the last. 

This weekend, CNN’s Phil Mattingly polled seven senior GOP and Democratic aides who have been involved in these fights for years about how they thought this would end. While everyone had ideas and theories, not one could give a firm, confident answer on the way out.

The reason why was probably best encapsulated by this, from a GOP aide:  

“We’re used to dealing with rational actors – the idea that once we get into situations like this, one side will see there’s no way out and end the stupidity. But those usual triggers – polls, pain of a shutdown on the country, frustrated members of your party – just don’t seem to move this president. Because it’s not about them, or an outcome. It’s about the fight.”

Amid the longest government shutdown in US history, a majority say President Trump bears more responsibility for it than the Democrats in Congress — and the President’s disapproval rating has climbed five points since last month, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

Negotiations between the President and congressional leaders have stalled as neither side seems willing to budge on funding for a wall along the border with Mexico.

That proposal remains unpopular with the public, according to the poll. Overall, 56% oppose a wall, 39% favor it.

President Trump said he is not considering declaring a national emergency, which would to allow him to bypass Congress and obtain funding to build his long-promised border wall, but he maintained that he is legally able to do so.

He again blamed Democrats for keeping the government shut down

“The Democrats should say, ‘We want border security.’ We have to build a wall otherwise you can’t have border security and we should get on with our lives. The Democrats are stopping us and they’re stopping a lot of great people from getting paid.”

In a new CNN poll, a majority say Trump bears more responsibility for it than the Democrats in Congress.

President Trump, speaking to reporters moments ago, said he’s unsure if Republican and Democratic lawmakers are close to a deal to reopen the government, while still demanding funding for border security.

Trump said the Democrats, who now control the US House, “need to do something.” (Note: the House has voted to reopen IRS and other financial agencies, despite threats the Trump would veto the legislation.)

“Democrats need to do something. We need their votes. Otherwise we can’t solve it. They now control the house. Let’s say if they can lead,”

Negotiations to reopen the government have been stalled for more than three weeks. The key sticking point: Funding for President Trump’s long-promised border wall.

Trump has repeatedly said that Republicans are unified on the shutdown.

But at least three Republican senators — all up for reelection — have suggested they would break with Trump and support appropriations bills that do not include funding for a wall.

Here’s a look at those three:

The ongoing partial government shutdown became the longest government shutdown in US history on Saturday, when it entered its 22nd day.

The previous record dates back to the Clinton administration when a 21-day shutdown resulted from a clash between President Bill Clinton and the GOP Congress that lasted from December 1995 to January 1996.

Today is not the 24th day of the shutdown, and there is still no end in sight to the current shutdown, which has impacted roughly a quarter of the federal government and hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

Here’s a look at how other previous shutdowns stack up: