"While Americans are struggling to make ends meet, federal workers are going without pay, and millions of families are bracing for soaring health care costs, the President is leaving the country," Schumer said in a statement. "America is shut down and the President is skipping town."

The ongoing government shutdown is breaking milestones as Democrats and Republicans are still far apart on federal spending.

House Speaker Johnson along with other GOP leaders continue to speakout on federal government shutdown as the U.S. reaches day 22. President Donald Trump on Tuesday rebuffed a request by top Democratic lawmakers to meet until the three-week-old U.S. government shutdown ends.

Now the second longest government shutdown in history, how much longer is it expected to last? See odds on next Senate vote to reopen today

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his Democratic colleagues voted against keeping the government open. The president has since authorized the Office of Management and Budget to

Monday, Oct. 20, is the 20th day of the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, making it the third-longest in history. Find out more about its impact.

There doesn’t appear to be an end in sight for the government shutdown as it enters its thirteenth day on Monday, Oct. 13.

Then, on April 25, 1980, along came then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti with a landmark opinion: Continuing to operate an agency without official appropriations, he ruled in response to a lawmaker’s query, constituted a violation of an obscure law called the 1884 Antideficiency Act. It was all downhill from there.