On Monday, the White House clarified that government employees weren’t yet being laid off due to the shutdown, as President Donald Trump had suggested, but warned that job losses could still happen as the standoff is poised to continue into a seventh day.

The Republican-led Senate for a fifth time rejected duelling measures to fund federal agencies, with insufficient support for both a Republican proposal to fund operations through November 21 and a Democratic version that would also extend healthcare subsidies due to expire at the end of the year.

Trump told reporters at the White House that he would be open to a deal on the subsidies, which help 24 million people buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act – a law that Republicans bitterly opposed for years.

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