President Trump on Tuesday hosted a private lunch meeting with GOP senators to thank them for their unity on the shutdown while criticizing Democrats for refusing to extend government funding.

The Senate has failed to advance a pair of competing measures to pay at least some federal employees during the government shutdown, a day before more than a million workers are set to miss a paycheck...

Economists have warned that the federal closure, with many of the nearly 2.3 million employees working without pay, will shave economic growth by 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points per week.