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Bipartisan talks on reopening the government began to materialize less than a day into the shutdown , with Republicans and Democrats trying to find a middle ground on expiring Obamacare tax credits.

The federal government entered its first full day of a shutdown on Wednesday, and so far neither side of the aisle is willing to buckle as the hours ticked by.

Still, in the middle of Senate Republicans’ third attempt to pass the House GOP’s short-term funding extension, a group of nearly a dozen senators huddled on the floor in the first public display of negotiations so far.

"There are glimmers of hope, and I think they're bipartisan," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who was in the huddle.

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