10.26pm BST

We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day. Here's a summary of where things stand:

• With little traction in Congress for a deal, the 2013 government shutdown appeared ready to barrel into the weekend. The House was to convene Saturday. President Obama is speaking to the Associated Press for an interview to air Saturday.

• Rumors swirled of a Republican proposal taking shape that would clean up the shutdown, the debt ceiling, the sequester, and the debate over taxes and entitlements in one fell swoop. However there was no indication that Democrats were interested in hearing such a proposal.

• The Democrats want a clean spending bill followed by a clean bill raising the debt ceiling followed by a budget deal. The Republicans want concessions on Obamacare and entitlements to be part of the deal(s) at some stage. For thumbnail insight into where the sides sit, this Twitter conversation between National Review writer Robert Costa and presidential advisor Dan Pfeiffer is recommended.

• The US Treasury is too short-handed to enforce sanctions on Iran and Syria, Democrats warned. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees remained on furlough. A roundup of agencies and departments affected by the shutdown is here.

• House Republicans passed or planned to pass at least 11 mini spending bills to fund slivers of government. The White House said it would sign one of them, to retroactively pay furloughed workers, but veto the others. The Obama administration deemed the process 'not serious or responsible.'

• Republicans seized on reports that an Obama official claimed "we are winning" the shutdown. "This isn't some damn game," House speaker John Boehner said. The president agreed "no one is winning."

• Markets were down and economic confidence as measured by Gallup was significantly down. The president canceled a trip to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.