Overview

• The shutdown reached day five with no meaningful negotiations reported since a White House meeting early last week, as leaders traded blame on Sunday shows.
• The Senate has failed four times to advance a GOP stopgap through November 21 and plans fresh votes Monday on competing Democratic and Republican funding bills.
• Democrats are withholding votes without an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, while Republicans push a clean short-term bill and say subsidy changes can be addressed later.
• The Trump administration has frozen billions in funding — including $18 billion for New York City projects, $2.1 billion for Chicago transit, and nearly $8 billion in Energy Department grants — and is reviewing plans for permanent layoffs of federal workers, though none have been executed.
• House Republicans recessed for a district work period as campaign arms in both parties launched ads to assign blame, with polling showing low and similar public support for each side’s handling of the shutdown.