U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff cited rising health care premiums as the reason for their “no” votes on advancing a deal to end the federal government shutdown. Warnock and Ossoff were two of eight Democratic senators who split with their party on a Republican-backed deal late Sunday to end the

Two Democratic Senators not in that vote were Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who have been fighting tooth and nail for health care subsidies.

President Donald Trump called on senators not to leave Washington, DC, for the weekend until they have a deal to end the shutdown.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who led the Shutdown Fairness Act, is "hopeful" to reach a bipartisan agreement to pay federal employees as soon as this weekend.

The U.S. Senate on Friday rejected legislation that would resume paychecks for hundreds of thousands of federal workers during the longest shutdown in U.S. history, as Democrats and Republicans remained at odds over how to reopen the government.

Senators are staying in Washington through the weekend as talks continue on a short-term spending deal to end the government shutdown, with both parties trading proposals on health care subsidies and federal worker pay.

Jon Ossoff, the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate, and his home-state colleague, Sen. They have, however, voted repeatedly for a Democratic alternative to fund the government through Oct.

Senate Republicans brought forth a bill to pay excepted workers during the shutdown, but it failed to reach the 60 vote threshold.

Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that House lawmakers should start returning to Washington “right now” after a small group of Senate Democrats broke a 40 day stalemate late Sunday evening and voted wi