Senate Democrats and the White House are in intensive negotiations over how to avert an extended partial shutdown of the federal government that is set to start early Saturday morning.
The two sides haven’t yet reached an agreement, according to a person granted anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Even if Democrats and the White House reach an agreement, Congress is still expected to blow past the Friday midnight shutdown deadline, since the House is in recess until Monday and is not expected to reconvene earlier to ratify any changes to the six-bill funding package it sent to the Senate last week.
The White House did not immediately…
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