Twenty-seven days into the government shutdown, the immediate outlook for the reopening of the federal government is grim.

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President Donald Trump is thousands of miles from Washington on a trade trip to Asia, the U.S. House has not been in session for more than a month and Democrats in the U.S. Senate have blocked a GOP short-term spending bill on a dozen consecutive votes.

Tensions between congressional Republicans and Democrats have only intensified in the more than three weeks since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.

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