Travelers described the chaos inside crowded U.S. airports after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cut flights amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

Widespread travel chaos is gripping the country this morning as Americans eagerly await an Oval Office announcement from Donald Trump amid the longest government shutdown in history.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not receiving pay cheques because lawmakers have not been able to pass a budget.

The bipartisan group of rank-and-file senators who have been negotiating a way out of the shutdown are mulling over a number of modifications to the bill. Lawmakers are expected to attempt to change the date that the short-term extension of government funding expires to a yet-to-be-determined later day.

Senate Republicans have a different strategy to end the government shutdown after making an offer to the Democrats for Friday's vote.