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Well, it is day six of the federal government shutdown, and there are no signs of the stalemate

ending.

To discuss that and more, we're joined now by our Politics Monday duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

So as I said, it doesn't seem like anything is going to change soon. The House is out again

this week. The Senate is expected to vote again today. That vote is expected to fail. So, Tam,

what could break this logjam? Probably the most likely thing to break the logjam is some sort of pressure coming to bear.

And what I mean is paychecks not going out.

When you get to a point where paychecks aren't going out in the past shutdown in 2019, 2018 and 2019, that finally ended in part because TSA agents weren't coming to the office or weren't going to the

airport because their paychecks weren't coming through. So there hasn't been a real forcing

mechanism just yet. The public outcry isn't really there. It's obviously a really big deal

here in Washington, D.C. It's less of a big deal in other parts of the

country at this point. We did see the president today, and this is a little confusing,

say that he was negotiating, that they were negotiating with Democrats about health care,

which is the issue that Democrats are sort of asking for negotiations on.

The issue, though, is Democrats on the Hill and Republicans on the Hill who've spoken to my

colleagues say there are no negotiations.

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