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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, promised a full debate on immigration in coming weeks. (Associated Press)

Dems give up shutdown fight

Democrats ended their filibuster Monday and agreed to reopen the government, ending a three-day work shutdown that embarrassed Washington and only deepened the gridlock that has gripped Capitol Hill.

January 22, 2018
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, tried to push the vote up to Sunday night, hoping to end the shutdown quickly, but his Democratic counterpart objected. (Associated Press)

Dems reject deal, shutdown to last into Monday

Senators were reaching for a deal overnight Sunday to try to end a 2-day-old government shutdown, hoping to prevent the worst of the effects of furloughs that hits in earnest on Monday.

January 21, 2018
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., explains to reporters how his negotiations with President Donald Trump broke down yesterday as quarreling politicians in Washington eventually failed to keep their government in business, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chuck Schumer blames Donald Trump for government shutdown

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Sunday that President Trump's rotten deal making and inept leadership caused the "Trump shutdown," as finger-pointing intensified on the second day the federal government was partially shuttered.

January 21, 2018
Rocky Mountain National Park Ranger Amy Fink and other critical staff members continued to work as open-air national parks and monuments remained open to visitors during the government shutdown. (Associated Press)

National parks, monuments open under Trump shutdown

President Trump's top aides said the open-air parks of national parks and monuments would remain open as part of the administration's determination to do a shutdown the right way -- if such a thing is possible.

January 21, 2018
President Donald Trump listens to a question during a town hall with business leaders in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump’s answer to shutdown: ‘Nuclear option’

President Trump urged Senate Republicans to use "nuclear option" rule change to eliminate the filibuster if Democrats keep blocking a spending bill that would end the government shutdown.

January 21, 2018
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (right) easily ushered the spending bill through his chamber with enough Republican votes, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are now in a shutdown showdown. (Associated Press/File)

House passes temporary funding bill to avert shutdown

President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress tamped down a conservative rebellion and pushed a stopgap spending bill through the House on Thursday evening, setting up a shutdown showdown in the Senate just hours before the Friday deadline.

January 18, 2018
In this file photo, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus, arrives for a closed-door strategy session with House Republicans as the deadline looms to pass a spending bill to fund the government by week's end, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Freedom Caucus getting behind bill to stop shutdown

Rep. Mark Meadows, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said Thursday that he had been convinced by President Trump and House GOP leaders to back the stop-gap spending bill to stop a government shutdown.Mr. Meadows said he was recommending to the more than 30 members of the House Freedom Caucus that they support the bill, likely clearing the way for it to pass later this evening.

January 18, 2018
"To block funding for our military with a Friday deadline over unrelated issues just makes no sense to me. It's wrong," said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican. (Associated Press/File)

Republicans aim to avert rebellion, shutdown

Republicans were trying to tamp down a conservative rebellion Wednesday and keep a stopgap spending bill on track ahead of a major vote Thursday, hoping to prove their party could govern and in the process trap Democrats in a shutdown showdown.

January 17, 2018
A supporter of President Donald Trump challenges police officers and a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program during a rally outside the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) ** FILE **

Senate Democrats dig in for shutdown fight over DACA

Senate Democrats are digging in to oppose a stopgap spending bill that would avert a government shutdown Friday, convinced they've got the upper hand in the budget battle and can force a deal to save "Dreamers" from deportation.

January 17, 2018