Article snippet: MORE and Democratic leaders appear no closer to a resolution five days into a partial government shutdown that has furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The Senate is scheduled to convene at 4 p.m. Thursday, but no votes are expected until Trump and Senate Democratic Leader MORE (Calif.) have a deal on a government funding bill. So far there are no signs the two sides are anywhere close to an agreement. The House doesn’t expect any action on the floor within the next 24 hours, according to Majority Whip MORE’s (R-La.) office. Schumer’s office said there was nothing new to announce on Wednesday. House GOP leaders indicated they are in a holding pattern until the upper chamber takes action on another spending bill. The House last week passed a measure that would provide $5.7 billion in border security and wall funding and $8.7 billion in disaster relief. But that bill is considered dead on arrival in the Senate, with Democrats and the White House remaining at odds over funding for President Trump’s border wall. Trump and Democratic leaders have only dug deeper into their entrenched positions since the shutdown started Saturday. Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump declared that federal agencies “are not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it.” Talks were put on pause Wednesday as the president and first lady made a surprise trip to Iraq to visit U.S. troops, though Trump told reporters travelin... Link to the full article to read more