The White House on Monday backed off President Donald Trump’s assertion that government employees were already being laid off due to the shutdown , but warned job losses could result as the standoff looked set to stretch into a seventh day. The Republican-led Senate for a fifth time rejected dueling measures to fund federal agencies, with insufficient support for both a Republican proposal to fund operations through November 21 and a Democratic version that would also extend healthcare subsidies due to expire at the end of the year.

Trump told reporters at the White House that he would be open to a deal on the subsidies, which help 24 million people buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act – a law that Republicans bitterly opposed for years. Shoring up the expiring subsi

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