Republican leaders on Friday cancelled all House votes next week as the shutdown drags on with no sign of a resolution.

Votes had previously been scheduled for four days next week: Oct. 14 through Oct. 17. All have been cancelled.

The announcement was read on the chamber floor during a short pro forma session, a routine procedure allowing one chamber to pause floor activities for days at a time without the consent of the other.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had previewed the cancellation earlier in the day, when he warned that he won’t bring the House back into session until Senate Democrats help to reopen the government, which was shuttered on Oct. 1.

"We will come back, and get back to legislative session, as soon as the Senate Democrats turn the lights back on," Johnson told reporter

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