Overview
- The lapse in funding is now the longest in U.S. history, with more than one million federal workers unpaid and hundreds of thousands furloughed.
- The Senate failed for the 14th time to advance a stopgap bill, as Democrats oppose a measure that does not extend enhanced ACA premium tax credits.
- President Trump told Republican senators to scrap the filibuster at a White House breakfast, but GOP leaders signaled they will not change the rule.
- Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries requested a bipartisan meeting with Trump after Democrats posted election gains and the president acknowledged the shutdown hurt Republicans.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned of possible airspace closures as controller shortages delay flights, while courts ordered the administration to issue partial SNAP payments using contingency funds.