Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Sunday on "This Week" with co-anchor Jonathan Karl HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON & HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES, SUNDAY ON “THIS WEEK” WITH CO-ANCHOR JONATHAN KARL

Congressional leaders traded blame for the government shutdown on Sunday as the stalemate over how to reopen the government stretched into another week without progress on negotiations.

New York Representative Pat Ryan slammed Johnson Monday for using him as an excuse for delaying Grijalva’s swearing-in, and accused him of attempting to block a House vote to release the government’s files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

House Republicans remain in their districts while Senate Democrats block the GOP's funding bills seven times, extending the government shutdown into its third week.

Democrats have been working for weeks to try to find concessions from Republicans on healthcare to no avail. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is expected to back a bill to pay federal workers this week, but Johnson said he doesn’t believe the Senate will pass it.

The government shutdown extended into Day 20 on Monday as the Senate failed to advance a House-passed measure to end the impasse for an 11th time.

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The Republican Party’s message to voters that the government shutdown, with no end in sight, is the fault of Democrats is being muddled by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) whose refusal to seat a newly elected Democrat is sucking up all the oxygen in the room,