Hunger, Flight Chaos, Health-Care Woes Fail to End Shutdown
Travelers look at a flight information board in Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in the Queens borough of New York on Nov. 7.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergCongress showed momentary signs of life in the nation’s longest government showdown, but the hope for a post-election compromise faded quickly, with frustrated senators apparently no closer to an escape plan.
Democrats, fresh from a sweep of coast-to-coast victories on Tuesday, scaled back their demands, offering a plan to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for one year in exchange for re-opening the government.