The U.S. Senate for a fifth time failed to pass a Republican-backed short-term spending bill on Monday, ensuring the federal government shutdown would stretch into a seventh day.

Despite the partisan impasse over a funding bill, President Donald Trump signaled a willingness to speak with congressional Democrats on the issue of health care. Democrats are demanding a renewal of soon-to-expire health care subsidies in exchange for their support of the stopgap spending bill.

"We have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things, and I'm talking about good things with regard to health care," Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday before the Senate vote.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrie

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