The US government shutdown appeared likely to stretch into next week as senators prepared Friday to vote for a fourth time on a funding fix proposed by Donald Trump’s Republicans that has little hope of success.

Federal agencies have been out of money since Wednesday — with a wide range of public services crippled — as a result of deadlocked talks in Congress on how to keep the lights on.

Senate leaders currently have no plans to keep the upper chamber of Congress in session over the weekend.

That means an afternoon vote on a short-term fix that has already been repeatedly rejected will be the last chance of the week for an off-ramp in a crisis that many analysts fear could drag on.

Ahead of the action in the Senate, the Trump administration suspended the publication of a key employmen

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