"Zoom in: Federal workers will go without pay starting Wednesday. The Trump administration is threatening to turn those furloughs - estimated at 750,000 a day - into mass firings during the shutdown. Federal services will be affected (see more here), and anyone visiting a federal website will read that it's Democrats' fault. "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government," reads the homepage of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)."
"Between the lines: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is under enormous political pressure not to back down without serious negotiations on extending enhanced subsidies for the Affordable Care Act - at a minimum. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he won't negotiate while Democrats keep the government shut down. Thune says Schumer has made unreasonable asks and is holding government funding hostage. Schumer says Thune refuses to even meet to negotiate."
Senate Republicans are five votes short of the 60 required to reopen the government. Two recent votes drew one Democrat in early September and two more on Tuesday, but neither reached the filibuster-proof threshold. Federal workers face furloughs without pay starting Wednesday, affecting roughly 750,000 worker-days, and the administration has threatened mass firings. Federal services will be disrupted and some government webpages attribute the shutdown to Democrats. Negotiations are stalled over demands for extended Affordable Care Act subsidies, with Senate leaders trading accusations and several moderate senators positioned as pivotal for upcoming votes.
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