Federal workers are supposed to go back to work Wednesday. President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders are barely communicating. The shutdown’s end is nowhere in sight.
According to a Wednesday Politico report, congressional leaders worry that the current standoff points to a shutdown even longer than anticipated — possibly into mid-January.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), once she becomes House speaker January 3, reportedly plans to force through a spending bill that omits Trump’s wall money, though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not yet said whether he’d let such a bill to the floor for a vote.
