Trump seeks 'constitutional option' to end govt shutdown

After funding for federal agencies ran out at midnight on Friday, many United States government employees were told to stay home or in some cases work without pay until new funding is approved.

The US government officially shut down at midnight on Friday after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach a last-minute deal to fund its operations, divided in a bitter dispute over immigration and border security.

"Conservatives enthusiastically promoted the notion that Democrats were taking the government to the cusp of a shutdown to benefit undocumented immigrants", The Washington Post reports.

Immediately after the bill failed, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY-D) said that the blame for the shutdown "should crash entirely on President Trump's shoulders". Leader McConnell has found this out.

While politicians on both sides of the aisle have pressed for bipartisan negotiations to bring the shutdown to an end, President Donald Trump advocated for a more dire solution on Twitter Sunday.

Democrats "own this mess", he said, "but now we need to work together to clean it up".

Blaming each other for the political deadlock, Republican and Democratic lawmakers closed the first day of a partial shutdown of the US government with few signs of agreement on a spending bill tangled in a fight over immigration.

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The White House said it will sign a three-week spending bill but refuses to negotiate any immigration issues, including the status of so-called Dreamers, until the government is re-opened.

"That's why we're here", Schumer said.

In a tweet Sunday morning Trump had called for the Senate to change the rules on filibusters, which requires a 60 votes to advance a bill.

U.S President Trump accused Democrats of putting politics above the interests of the American people. Republicans could only lose two votes, and five Republicans have already voted against the short term resolution. But Republicans then needed the support of at least 10 Democrats to pass the bill in the Senate. Negotiations with the White House on a DACA compromise blew up last week after Trump reportedly referred to African nations and Haiti as "s***hole countries".

The shutdown lasted 16 days and furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

As the clock ticked towards midnight, when funding for the government was set to expire, senators huddled on the floor of the crowded Senate chamber, searching for some way forward.

Essential services and military activity will continue but many public sector workers will be sent home without wages and even serving soldiers will not be paid until a deal is reached to reopen the U.S. government.

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