Senators work the weekend to negotiate over shutdown. Live updates
USA TODAY
Nov. 8, 2025, 7:38 a.m. ET
"I am tired of political games," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota.
WASHINGTON – After weeks of making little progress to end the government shutdown, senators are spending their first weekend working overtime since the crisis started.
Normally, they travel back to their states at the end of the week – a fact that has stayed the same for more than a month even as the funding crisis, now the longest of its kind, has devolved with each passing day, harming millions of Americans.
But lawmakers are growing increasingly anxious about reopening the government amid mounting flight cuts, growing food insecurity and hundreds of thousands of federal workers who've gone without paychecks for nearly 40 days.
President Donald Trump weighed in on the situation Friday afternoon, urging lawmakers to stay in Washington until they figure a way out of the crisis.
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