By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republicans and Democrats faced another looming deadline as a government shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday: payday for active-duty military service members.

If the standoff between President Donald Trump’s Republicans and congressional Democrats does not end in the next week, 1.3 million active-duty military, hundreds of thousands of active members of the National Guard and civilians who work for the Defense Department will not be paid on October 15 as scheduled.

Service members remain on duty despite the shutdown that began on October 1. Their work is deemed essential for national security.

An agreement to end the shutdown — or to pass separate legislation to pay the troops — seemed unlikely on Monday.

Members of the two parties

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