President Donald Trump demanded that the Senate remain in session until a federal budget agreement is reached to end the government shutdown.

“The United States Senate should not leave town until it has reached an agreement to end the Democratic shutdown. If they cannot reach an agreement, the Republicans should end the “Filibustering, IMMEDIATELY, and take care of our great American workers,” he wrote on his social media network, Truth Social.

The Senate held another vote on Friday on the Republican interim proposal to reopen the federal government, which was rejected.

Before Trump posted the message, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, offered Republican representatives a deal to break the deadlock in exchange for extending subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) for another year, his main demand during this time.

However, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, called the proposal “horrible” and “political terrorism.”

Furthermore, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican, explained to CBS that the Democratic proposal is a “guaranteed failure” and maintained the Republican idea: open the government and negotiate health coverage subsidies afterward.

This situation has led to Thune proposal that the Senate remain in session over the weekend, for the first time since the government shutdown began on October 1. The Republican proposal currently being voted on only offers a budget until November 21, because it was the one the House of Representatives passed in late September, even before the shutdown began. After nearly 40 days of the shutdown, the fact that lawmakers are still discussing an agreement that will only last two weeks does not indicate a real solution. Therefore, Several media outlets indicate that if the Senate remains in session, it may be able to negotiate a common interim bill that secures the 60 votes needed to open the government at least until December. As the situation drags on, Republican senators seem more confident of obtaining the seven Democratic votes needed for the initiative to pass,especially among the more moderate wing of the opposition. The government shutdown is beginning to affect not only the thousands of federal employees who were sent home without pay when this situation began. It also affects more than 40 million Americans who are uncertain about whether they will receive partial or full benefits from the Food Assistance Program (SNAP), following government decisions to grant them partially and court rulings that reiterated the government's obligation to provide them in full, but were suspended by a Supreme Court decision. The shortage of air traffic controllers has caused the Department of Transportation to order a reduction of up to 10% in air traffic across the country. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the cuts could increase to 20% if the situation does not improve by next week.