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51 votes to pass something so what next? some house lawmakers are staying in town amid the partial government shutdown. analysis continues now, more later on your local news for fox news in washington. ♪ >> shannon: president trump tweeting out not long ago that he hopes his partial shutdown is not a long one. kristin fisher is live with reaction and that's a different thing that he said just a couple of days ago. >> it is, president trump said today he is totally prepared for a long shutdown, he said he believes this may be his only chance to get the funding for his wall that he promised hi...

Paycheck to paycheck, during the shutdown they are getting paid, they are with their families at christmas. the president is in the oval office still trying to make a deal but democrats are denying the president, listen to their words. it's his wall, it's republicans, there wall. it's not his wall, there wall, it's our wall, it's republicans and democrats obligation to secure this nation. >> shannon: we've seen a number of members of congress step up saying they want to give up their paycheck while this is going on in solidarity with the people who will have to make sacrifices during the holid...

Segment. it's actually 78% of americans who live paycheck to paycheck and the type of chaos and uncertainty that donald trump embraced when he was running the trump organization, that is not how you govern. in those up to 80% of government workers who probably are living paycheck to paycheck, uncertainty and chaos in december before christmas, that's a real war on christmas. we have to get to a place where this is not business as usual and i would ask one question to the president.av did you even try to make a deal with mexico? was there any attempt? >> we got a deal with mexico. >> to pay for...

Don't want them in the united states. we don't want them in our country. the only thing that's going to stop that is great border security with a wall or a slat fence or whatever you want to call it. we need a great barrier and if we don't have it it's never going to work. >> president trump has been pushing the majority leader to end this partial shutdown by invoking the nuclear option, getting rid of the filibuster to allow the senate to pass the bill with a simple majority but mcconnell has said he won't do it because it could backfire and end up hurting republicans the next time democrats ...

Senator schumer. if he's going to shut the government down again, i know he's done that earlier and it wasn't productive so we are very hopeful we can find common ground. >> the senate and house each adjourned with hours left on the countdown clock even though some republicans like lindsey graham were urging leaders to dig in and fight, the vice president mike pence and incoming white house chief of staff mick mulvaney huddled with lawmakers until late trying to figure out where there could be some give and take but for now democrats are drawing a line in the sand, refusing any measure that wo...