Shutdown becomes longest in U.S. history as Senate GOP meets Trump; deal talks show faint signs of progress. Follow live.

President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that the shutdown negatively affected the party’s performance on election night. Trump gathered Congressional Republicans for breakfast at the White House to discuss the results of the election and eliminating the filibuster,

“Even given that Trump hasn’t gone grocery shopping in decades (if ever), his continued insistence that you have to show ID when you go to the grocery store is so mysterious. Is he thinking about when people used to write checks to pay for groceries? It’s so odd,” said James Surowiecki, a contributing writer at The Atlantic.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump's first and only nominee to the Boston-based federal appeals court, which until now had been largely composed of judges appointed by Democrats and has frequently blocked his policy initiatives.

After another failed vote in the Senate, the U.S. is on the verge of breaking the record for the longest government shutdown in history. At 35 days, Tuesday ties the record for the longest stalemate,

President Trump, whose first term at the White House set the previous government shutdown record, said this one was a "big factor, negative" in the GOP's election losses Tuesday, again demanding Republicans end the Senate filibuster as a way to reopen the government.