GEOFF BENNETT: After another day of deadlock,# the U.S.

Senate adjourned for the weekend,## extending the government shutdown into next week.# Democrats are holding out for Republicans to make## health care concessions to their spending bill.# But, until lawmakers figure out a way forward,## thousands of federal workers are left worrying# about their paychecks and looming mass layoffs.

Our White House correspondent,# Liz Landers, has more.

LIZ LANDERS: It's day three# of the government shutdown.

MAN: The motion, upon# reconsideration, is not agreed to.

LIZ LANDERS: And no end in sight# after the Senate again failed to## pass a stopgap spending bill and# then left town for the weekend.

REP.

MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): You can# see it's pretty empty around here.

LIZ LANDERS: Speaker Mike Johnson reiterating# the same message he's had for the past few## days.

He's willing to discuss health care,# but not under the current circumstances.

REP.

MIKE JOHNSON: The subsidies that they're# saying is the issue is not the issue.

That is## an issue for the end of the year.

December 31# is when that expires.

So Congress has three## months to negotiate that.

Certainly, we could# work on it in the month of October to find## some consensus to figure that out, what reforms# there may be necessary to make all that happen.

LIZ LANDERS: House Minority Leader Hakeem# Jeffries showing no signs of budging.

REP.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): Donald Trump and# the Republicans are not behaving responsibly.## They're not behaving in a serious manner.# They don't want to reopen the government,## and they certainly do not want to address the# health care crisis that Republicans have created.

LIZ LANDERS: The president, who has not had any# public appearances so far during the shutdown,## instead taking to social media to call Democrats# -- quote -- "the party of hate, evil and Satan."

But his director of the Office of Management and# Budget, usually an under-the-radar role, flexing## his power to continue to target Democrat-voting# cities and states, announcing two infrastructure## projects in Chicago are on hold.

The $2.1 billion# in federal funding for train extensions is paused## to -- quote -- "ensure funding is not# flowing via race-based contracting."

KAROLINE LEAVITT, White House Press# Secretary: Good afternoon, everyone.

LIZ LANDERS: Speaking to reporters today,## White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt# said again mass layoffs are all but .. KAROLINE LEAVITT: The Office of Management# and Budget is in constant communication and## contact right now with our Cabinet secretaries# and agencies across the board to identify,## unfortunately, where layoffs have to be made# and where cuts have to happen.

But, again,## the Democrats have an opportunity to prevent# this if they vote to reopen the government.

LIZ LANDERS: As the week comes to a# close, thousands of government workers## remain off the job, bracing for a# long shutdown without a paycheck.

APRIL GOGGANS, Administration# for Children and Families: We are## essentially paralyzed and without an.. LIZ LANDERS: April Goggans works for an# agency under the Department of Health## and Human Services.

She's also a federal# workers union leader and has hope that her## fellow employees can make it through# the shutdown, however long it lasts.

APRIL GOGGANS: They know that people are scared.# They know that people want to come back, because## they want to work.

They want to do the work that# they're doing, but they also got to feed their## families.

I feel today more solid in my resolve# to not let this -- it's not going to break us.

LIZ LANDERS: For the "PBS# News Hour," I'm Liz Landers.