The US federal government’s shutdown entered its second week on Wednesday, with no end on the horizon as the Senate was unable to reach an agreement to reopen it.
On the day, two bills to fund the government — one from Democrats and the other from Republicans — failed to pass for the sixth time.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, the top Republican in the lower chamber, said that Senate Democrats should back the GOP stopgap measure to reopen the government.
The two parties continued to trade blame for the impasse.
“Washington Democrats voted for this government shutdown — and it’s families, workers, and small businesses who are being forced to pay the price,” Johnson said Wednesday on X. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the upper chamber, said on X that “The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking healthcare away” from Americans, and that Republicans “won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it”.
Xinhua
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