The Senate is expected to consider two separate spending bills Thursday, but they are both likely to fail.
The House again on Wednesday passed a stopgap spending bill, as well as six of the spending bills House and Senate negotiators had worked out last year. Senate Republicans are unlikely to follow suit without a promise of border wall funding President Trump wants.
House Democrats were contemplating an immigration counter-offer to the President.
Among the federal employees working without pay during the partial government shutdown are more than 40,000 Coast Guard members.
“I find it unacceptable that @USCG members must rely on food pantries & donations to get through day-to-day life,” Admiral Karl Schultz‏, the Coast Guard commandant, said in a video on Twitter.