WASHINGTON - Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions.

If government funding legislation isn’t passed by Congress and signed by Trump on Tuesday night, many government offices across the nation will be temporarily shuttered and nonexempt federal employees will be furloughed, adding to the strain on workers and the nation’s economy.

Here's the latest on the effort to avoid a government shutdown:

Senate must pass funding measure to avoid shutdown

7:30 a.m. ET: The federal government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday if the Senate does not pass a House measure that would extend federal funding for seven weeks while lawmakers finish their w

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