As lawmakers head home for the weekend – ensuring the shutdown will drag into the next week – another week has passed on Capitol Hill with little, if any, progress to reopen the government.
Asked whether there was anything that occurred this week that brings Congress any closer to reopening government, the resounding consensus was no.
“No, none,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told ABC News. “I think we’re at an impasse. I think we’re going to go into November. It’s horrible.”
“I can’t tell you how wrong it is, I think, to make people suffer because of it, and people are suffering,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. “I mean, I know that in this building, it’s like, oh, this is just a political game. This is not a game.”
Despite the lack of momentum to end the shutdown, Lummis does not believe that President Donald Trump needs to get more involved to break the stalemate.
“I think that this is something that the Congress needs to handle among itself. We know what they’re asking for,” Lummis said. “It’s $1.5 trillion and they want to put a band aid on Obamacare when Obamacare needs to be addressed for its underlying inability to deliver affordable health care. So there’s a lot of work to do.”
-ABC News’ John Parkinson
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