(Bloomberg) — The White House tightened its pressure on congressional Democrats as a US government shutdown lurched into a second week, saying it would give the holdouts another chance to agree to the spending bill before initiating mass firings of federal workers.

With the Senate set to vote late Monday for the fifth time on a stopgap bill to keep the government open through Nov. 21, Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, argued that it was time for Democrats to be “reasonable.”

Trump has said that he would use the shutdown to fire thousands more federal workers, who are normally furloughed during government closures.

Democrats say they will not support the bill unless it addresses Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at end of 2025, as well as

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