The Senate and House convened in a rare Saturday sessions after nine Cabinet-level departments and several other federal agencies ceased operations Saturday morning in the latest government shutdown of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney issued a memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies late Friday directing them to implement shutdown plans for departments not funded by the spending bills for fiscal 2019 that have become law.

“Although we are hopeful that this lapse in appropriations will be of short duration, employees should report to work for their next regularly scheduled tour of duty to undertake orderly shutdown activities,” Mulvaney wrote.

The White House deployed Vice President Mike Pence, Mulvaney and senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to the Capitol for closed-door talks with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Speaker Paul D. Ryan. Schumer laid out three options he said Senate Democrats could support as the group moved from office to office inside the ornate building.

But, in the end, the various factions were unable to settle on one plan that could pass both chambers — and, most importantly, get Trump’s signature to avert a shutdown or end a very short lapse in funding.