After more than a month, the partial shutdown of the United States' federal government drags on. President Donald Trump is calling for Senate Republicans to "get rid of the filibuster" in order to get a spending bill passed and end the shutdown,

Democrats face an uphill battle to recapture a U.S. Senate majority in the November 2026 midterm elections, as Republicans are defending just two seats seen as competitive by nonpartisan analysts and hold a 53-47 majority.

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The shutdown is set to overtake the 35-day record Tuesday night. The divisions among Democrats over whether it's time to negotiate a way out — or even what that way out should be — comes as Senate Republicans grow increasingly confident about their posture,

Bipartisan efforts in the U.S. Senate to reopen the federal government as early as this week gave way to fresh signs of frustration on Tuesday, even as Republicans and Democrats aired details of a possible path out of the five-week-old impasse.

The standoff between President Donald Trump and congressional Democratic leaders is poised to become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history this week.