While the ACLU and other liberal and progressive groups have asked Democratic leaders to not give an inch, several other Democrats from across the spectrum of the party also say they're open to using this shutdown to get a deal that includes those DACA recipients, or Dreamers.
"The president applauds leader Reid and minority leader McConnell for working together to forge this compromise and encourages the Congress to act swiftly to end this shutdown and protect the full faith and credit of the United States of America," said Obama's chief spokesman, Jay Carney.
Urging "Congress and the White House to take all necessary steps to end this shutdown immediately," the union leaders said that they found it "unconscionable that aviation professionals are being asked to work without pay and in an air safety environment that is deteriorating by the day".
We very much need to get this shutdown and the debt ceiling behind us ASAP and do everything we can to get back to solving problems as opposed to creating them.
"This is a night of deep sorrow for me because I don't want to see this shutdown occur," Mr. Dayton told reporters late Thursday, not long before his spokeswoman confirmed that a shutdown of services had begun.
"This is a night of deep sorrow for me because I don't want to see this shutdown occur," Mr. Dayton told reporters shortly before the midnight deadline on Thursday.
Please work with Congressional leaders to end this shutdown so our communities can rebuild quickly and effectively". .
The News Corporation effort to buy the 61 percent of the company it does not already own had been in peril because of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the shutdown this weekend of The News of the World, the tabloid that was one of Mr. Murdoch's biggest newspapers.
And none of the controllers forced to work during this shutdown will see pay for their hard work to keep travelers safe until the shutdown ends.
