Republicans and Democrats remain at loggerheads and have been unable to strike a deal, extending the government shutdown to a third day.

Senate Majority Leaders Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer did not appear to be any closer to ending the stalemate as they left the Senate on Sunday night.

McConnell said there would be a vote at noon on Monday that could end the impasse, calling for both parties to 'step back from the brink'.

'The shutdown should stop today. And we'll soon have a vote that will allow us to do that,' he said.

However, Schumer said he and McConnell were yet to reach a 'path' towards re-opening the government.

President Donald Trump is yet to react to the news.

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The government shutdown will extend into a third day after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a deal on Sunday night. Mitch McConnell is seen leaving the Senate

President Donald Trump is yet to react to the news that no deal will be struck tonight

In an olivebranch to the Democrats, McConnell earlier said he would seek to bring forward legislation involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) if enough Democrats vote to re-open the government.

'Should these issues not be resolved by the time the funding bill before us expires on February 8, 2018, assuming that the government remains open, it would be my intention to proceed to legislation that would address DACA, border security, and related issues,' McConnell said from the Senate floor.

'It is also my intention to take up legislation regarding increased defense funding, disaster relief, and other important matters. Importantly, when I proceed to the immigration debate, it will have an amendment process that is fair to all sides.'

McConnell and Democrat Chuck Schumer are continuing to negotiate but are yet to 'reach a path forward', Schumer said, according to Politico.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer assigned blame for the government shutdown on President Trump

It comes after Senator Lindsey Graham predicted Sunday afternoon that there could be a 'breakthrough' in sight, as he joined a bipartisan group of senators to negotiate the end to the government shutdown.

'If there's going to be one, it will be tonight,' Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said.

Graham told reporters that he believed the Senate could pass a continuing resolution to fund the government for three weeks, with an 'understanding' from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the upper chamber would then tackle immigration issues in the weeks ahead as part of a more long-term funding solution.

Negotiations had been at a standstill, with Democrats saying they wouldn't reopen the government until an immigration deal was etched out.

Republicans, including those at the White House, said they wouldn't negotiate on immigration until the government reopened.

WHITE HOUSE VOICEMAIL BLAMES DEMOCRATS FOR SHUTDOWN Americans trying to call the public comments line at the White House cannot get through because of the government shutdown. But the Trump administration has changed the voicemail message callers receive when they dial the number. Anyone calling 202-456-1111 gets the following message: 'Thank you for calling the White House. Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional Democrats are holding government funding—including funding for our troops and other national security priorities—hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. 'Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down. In the meantime, you can leave a comment for the president at www.whitehouse.gov/contact. 'We look forward to taking your calls as soon as the government reopens.' Advertisement

At 1pm on Sunday, the Senate came back into session, with McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, trading barbs – and assigning blame for the shutdown – on the Senate floor.

Later in the day they met, with a vote still scheduled for 1 a.m. Monday night.

'This shutdown was a political miscalculation of gargantuan proportions,' McConnell huffed. 'But it doesn't need to go on any longer. It could stop today.'

'Let's step back from the brink,' the top Senate Republican implored. 'Let's stop victimizing the American people and get back to work on their behalf.'

McConnell put the blame for the shutdown squarely on Schumer's shoulders.

'He shut down the government to appease a portion of his party's left-wing base. Makes you shake your head,' the Kentucky Republican said. 'Who comes up with ideas like this?'

When it was Schumer's turn to take the floor, he assigned blame to President Trump.

'The Congressional leaders tell me to negotiate with President Trump. President Trump tells me to figure it out with the Congressional leaders. This political Catch-22, never seen before, has driven our government to dysfunction,' Schumer said.

Schumer was the last lawmaker to get facetime with the president before the shutdown, which kicked off at midnight on Friday.

The New York Democrat had lunch with the president on Friday and thought they had almost gotten to a deal.

President Trump started his Sunday by, again, assigning blame for the government shutdown to the Democratic Party and floating the idea of removing the legislative filibuster, which is called the 'nuclear option.' The appetite, even among Republicans, isn't there

'On Friday, in the Oval Office, I made what I thought was a very generous offer to the president. The most generous offer yet. The president demanded for months that a deal on DACA include the wall,' Schumer said.

The top Senate Democrat said he agreed to the dollar figure Trump had thrown out, despite having reservations about the effectiveness of the wall.

Then, Schumer said, Trump walked away from the deal.

Graham, talking to reporters on Capitol Hill Sunday, pointed a finger at immigration hard-liners like Stephen Miller, one of President Trump's top White House advisers.

'Every time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back by staff members,' Graham said. 'As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating on immigration, we are going nowhere.'

Miller, Graham also charged, didn't have 'mainstream' views on immigration.

Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican whose views are more in line with Miller's on immigration, pushed back on the complaints made by Graham and others.

'To imply that some adviser ... is pulling the strings of the president is to impugn the president,' Cotton told reporters.

Graham gave a curt 'no' when asked if he had spoken to President Trump today, saying that the Senate needs to step in and lead.

'I think the Senate is the best body to lead the country to a result,' Graham said.

The White House has been quiet for most of the day Sunday with President Trump sending out just one early a.m. tweet.

In it, he suggested that Senate leadership should invoke the 'nuclear option,' which would change the Senate rules to kill the legislative filibuster.

Later the White House said that Trump had conversed with the No. 2 Republicans in both the House and the Senate, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California and Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.

Chief of Staff John Kelly spoke with McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, the White House said.

Trump's contribution to the shutdown drama all weekend has been increasingly hostile language toward Democrats.

'Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border,' Trump tweeted on Saturday. 'They could have easily made a deal but decided to play Shutdown politics instead.'

In his tweet today, Trump said, 'The Dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked.'

Trump's presidential campaign also put out a video that called Democrats 'complicit in all murders' committed by undocumented immigrants. Late Sunday afternoon, his campaign put out a fundraising email again calling the Democrats 'COMPLICIT.'

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also put out a statement whacking Schumer late Sunday afternoon, suggesting he wasn't being honest about what happened at Friday's White House meeting.

'Sen. Schumer's memory is hazy because his account of Friday's meeting is false,' Huckabee Sanders said in a statement given to reporters. 'And the president's position is clear: we will not negotiate on the status of unlawful immigrants while Sen. Schumer and the Democrats hold the government for millions of Americans and our troops hostage.'