Members said they were working on various proposals to present to Mr. McConnell and Mr. Schumer, with the hope that they would talk to each other. Earlier Friday, Mr. Trump and Mr. Schumer had closed in on an agreement, but those talks eventually fell apart, and Mr. Schumer later blamed the president for backing away from a possible deal. To reopen the government, at least a dozen or so Senate Democrats will most likely need to agree to any deal, since 60 votes will be required for the measure to clear the Senate. But Republicans, who moved swiftly to brand the crisis as the “Schumer shutdown,” did not seem eager to make concessions, and, in effect, reward Democrats for largely opposing the stopgap bill. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, noted that he had worked with Mr. Schumer to bring an end to the 2013 shutdown and said no party should ever shut down the government.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2018 16:07 UTC