Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping to find bipartisan resolution that has so far eluded them as government workers have gone unpaid,

Senators convened for a rare Saturday session aimed at ending the government shutdown, with no signs of an imminent breakthrough.

Senate Republicans and Democrats have rejected alternating proposals to fund the federal government and end the record 38-day government shutdown.

The Senate is wrangling to find a way out of the shutdown as it stretches well into day 38. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is threatening weekend work for the first time since the shutdown began in hopes of forcing an end to the standoff,

Senate Republicans are moving to try to end the government shutdown by preparing a new bipartisan package of funding bills and daring Democrats to vote for it

Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago. Meanwhile, President Trump signaled he was unwilling to compromise to settle the standoff.

Now in its 38th day, the U.S. government shutdown is the longest in U.S. history. Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution. Meanwhile, the shutdown impacts are mounting.