Congress is effectively kicking the partial government shutdown into 2019.

Both chambers met briefly on Monday but did not take action to fully reopen the government.

The Senate, with only Sen. Cory Gardner Cory Scott GardnerBillionaire who donated to Trump in 2016 donates to Biden The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Trump previews SCOTUS nominee as 'totally brilliant' Cook Political Report shifts Colorado Senate race toward Democrat MORE (R-Colo.) present, met on Monday for roughly a minute without taking up legislation to fund roughly 25 percent of the government. The House held a similar session.

Both chambers will meet again on Wednesday, when they are expected to formally adjourn the 115th Congress.

The decision to kick the funding fight until later in the week will push the partial shutdown closer to its two-week mark after Congress missed the Dec. 21 deadline to fund the rest of the government.

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The White House and lawmakers are at a stalemate over funding for President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE's U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Sen. Richard Shelby Richard Craig ShelbySenate to push funding bill vote up against shutdown deadline Senate GOP eyes early exit Dems discussing government funding bill into February MORE (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, warned on Sunday that the partial shutdown “could last a long, long time” and that negotiations are “at an impasse at the moment.”



“At the end of the day, all of this will end. We don't know when, in negotiations. It's not a question of who wins or loses. Nobody's going to win this kind of game. Nobody wins in a shutdown. We all lose and we kind of look silly,” Shelby told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Trump has demanded $5 billion for the wall. House Republicans included the amount in a short-term stopgap bill that would have funded roughly a quarter of the government through Feb. 8.