Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping to find bipartisan resolution that has so far eluded them as government workers have gone unpaid,

Senate Republicans and Democrats have rejected alternating proposals to fund the federal government and end the record 38-day government shutdown.

The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court a federal judge’s order to provide full SNAP benefits for November. The high court agreed.

Senate Republicans are moving to try to end the government shutdown by preparing a new bipartisan package of funding bills and daring Democrats to vote for it

The Senate on Friday failed to pass a bill to pay federal workers forced to work without pay during the government shutdown, with Democrats refusing to yield to GOP attempts to fund any parts of the federal government without major concessions for their party.

The Senate is expected to vote for 15th time on legislation to end the 38-day-long government shutdown on Nov. 7. The body has already voted 14 times unsuccessfully on a stop gap funding bill to temporarily open the government until Nov.

I n the hours before Democrats’ electoral victories Tuesday night, the end of the government shutdown seemed near. Several Democratic senators had spent the day quietly discussi