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US congressional talks on a border security agreement have stagnated, increasing the chances of a new government shutdown.
Negotiators were hoping for an agreement by Monday to give Congress time to pbad legislation by Friday when the federal funding agreement runs out.
They remain divided on the number of undocumented immigrants who can be detained and on the financing of the border wall promised by President Trump in Mexico.
The previous 35-day shutdown was the longest in US history.
Hundreds of thousands of workers were laid off, while others were working in essential services, such as hospital care, air traffic control, and law enforcement.
The way negotiators would try to reach an agreement was unclear as no other meeting was scheduled, the Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying.
What is the last impbade?
The 17 Republican and Democratic negotiators from the Senate and House have begun negotiations to reach an agreement on border security that Congress can accept.
The latest stalemate appears to be centered on a Democrat demand to limit the number of undocumented migrants already in the United States who may be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Democrats had planned to limit the number of beds in detention centers to 16,500.
In doing so, they hoped to force ICE to focus on detaining irregular migrants with criminal records instead of those who had exceeded their visas and, according to Democrats, are productive and pose no threat.
They also envisioned $ 1.3 billion to $ 2 billion for Trump's border wall project, far short of the $ 5.7 billion requested by the president.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, President Trump said the Democrats "behave, all of a sudden, irrationally."
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