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After another day of deadlock, the U.S. Senate adjourned for the weekend, extending the

government shutdown into next week. Democrats are holding out for Republicans to make

health care concessions to their spending bill. But until lawmakers figure out a way

forward, thousands of federal workers are left worrying about their paychecks and looming mass layoffs.

Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has more.

It's day three of the government shutdown.

The motion upon reconsideration is not agreed to.

And no end in sight after the Senate again failed to pass a stopgap spending bill and then left town for the weekend.

You can see it's pretty empty around here.

Speaker Mike Johnson reiterating the same message he's had for the past few days.

He's willing to discuss

health care, but not under the current circumstances. The subsidies that they're saying is the

issue is not the issue. That is an issue for the end of the year. December 31 is when that expires.

So Congress has three months to negotiate that. Certainly we could work on it in the month of

October to find some consensus

and figure that out, what reforms there may be necessary to make all that happen.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries showing no signs of budging.

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