The intense partisan politics that drove Washington into a shutdown are making the path out of it hard to see.

It's a stare-down, and one side has to blink — with Republicans and Democrats each vowing it won't be them.

Democrats have shot down a GOP-crafted stopgap to fund the government at current levels through Nov. 21, demanding an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and new restrictions on the administration’s practice of withholding federal funds.

The impetus to find a solution is on Republicans who have the White House and both majorities, they argue.

“They’re in charge. They have to convene a negotiation. They haven’t done that,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Tuesday. “The fact that they aren't even here in the House of Representatives is proof that they

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