President Donald Trump has walked out of a meeting with Democratic leaders as negotiations broke down on the 19th day of a US government shutdown.
Talks ended after Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, two democrats refused to fund his planned US-Mexico border wall.
Mr Trump called his meeting with the pair “a total waste of time”.
Some 800 thousand federal workers will go without pay this week for the first time since the shutdown began.
Mrs Pelosi, who is Speaker of the House of Representatives, said the legion of unpaid federal employees was”collateral damage” to Mr Trump.
Because he seems insensitive to the matter.
