The U.S. Senate once again rejected successive stopgap funding bills proposed by both parties on the 3rd, and the government shutdown will continue into next week.

October 4th: The U.S. government shutdown is now in its second week. On Friday local time, U.S. senators once again successively turned down the temporary funding bills proposed by both parties, depriving the opportunity to reopen various agencies. Currently, Congress is in recess until Monday. It is expected that the leadership will forcefully conduct a fifth round of voting on the proposal to extend government funding until November 21st, which was passed by the House. The current deadlock and the impact of the shutdown are continuously escalating: The White House is intensifying pressure on the Democratic Party and is expected to announce government layoffs soon and freeze billions of dollars in project funding for blue states. Since Wednesday morning when federal funding ran out, hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been forced to take leave, and non-essential services have been suspended. However, as of now, Congress leadership and the White House are still in a state of cold war, and there is no sign that if the two sides solely rely on negotiations, they will be able to find a way to reopen the government in the short term. (FX168)