It’s now been a month since the government was open, and the partial shutdown has had wide-ranging effects across the United States.
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, when most of the federal government’s operations would have been closed anyway. But this year’s holiday marks a milestone in the shutdown as hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain furloughed: It’s been one month since the government was last fully open.
As a bone-chilling flash freeze hovered over the Midwest and Northeast on Monday, many forecasters at the National Weather Service were working without pay. Veterans in emergency management are worried about longer-term trouble, too. President Trump made a brief stop on Monda y at the memorial to Dr. King in Washington.
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On Saturday, Mr. Trump proposed to end the partial government shutdown after Democrats extended a proposal of their own on Friday, having added $1 billion in border spending to their offer. If he got $5.7 billion for a border wall, Mr. Trump said, he would restore for three years the protections known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and Temporary Protected Status, or T. P. S.
Republicans had hoped his plan would put Democrats in a corner, but Democrats called it a nonstarter, prompting attacks from the president on the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi. And her relationship with her counterpart in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who presumably would need to make a deal with her, is fraught. Immigrants in Texas are skeptical of the president’s proposal.
While Mr. Trump has projected confidence in public, he has expressed private frustration over what he views as negative coverage.
