What to know on Day 8 of the government shutdown:

Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse over how to end the government shutdown , now on its eighth day.

For the sixth time, the Senate is holding procedural votes on dueling measures to fund the government and end the stalemate. Both are expected to fail to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to advance.

On Tuesday, confusion spread over whether the 750,000 furloughed federal workers would receive back pay, after a memo from the White House's Office of Management and Budget suggested they might not. Congressional leaders have pushed back, insisting that furloughed workers would be made whole.

At the Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he would not call back the House to vote on a separate bill to pay members of

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