By bizn_fun 
In duelling press conferences on Capitol Hill on Thursday, neither party appeared willing to give ground.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called Democrats “selfish”, dubbed it the “Democrat shutdown”, and said he would not negotiate on adding insurance subsidies – or other measures – to government funding.
Jeffries accused Republicans of not wanting to provide working-class Americans with healthcare and said Trump’s threats to fire more federal workers were pointless. He noted: “They have been firing federal employees all along.”
Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion, said his polling suggested Americans were largely split down party lines when it came to assigning fault for the shutdown.
Majorities of both Democratic and Republican respondents to his polls blamed the other party for the shutdown, he said, while 41% of independents said both parties shared the blame equally.
“Both of the parties have mastered the finger-pointing, and all we’re left with is a growing number of people think the country is headed in the wrong direction,” Miringoff said.
He expected Americans to put pressure on Congress to reopen the government – but not until they see the impact of a shutdown on their own lives.