WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown entered its sixth day. House Speaker Mike Johnson said "there's nothing for us to negotiate" while House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries declared the "time is now" to work out a deal on health care.

Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Monday that they could stop asking why he wasn't negotiating an end to the impasse and that it was up to a handful of Democrats to "stop the madness" and pass a stopgap spending bill that had earlier passed the House.

"We did the job to keep the government open, and now it's on the Senate Democrats," Johnson said.

The House is not expected to be in session this week, focusing attention on the Senate to tak

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