Sunday shows preview: Shutdown enters week three

The partial shutdown of the federal government entered its third week on Sunday as thousands of government employees remain furloughed and Congress appears no closer to reaching a deal with the president to approve funding.

Members of the White House and new Democratic House majority will offer differing views on the shutdown on Sunday’s talk show circuit following another week of meetings between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and their congressional Republican colleagues.

{mosads}Schumer emerged from the most recent meeting between Trump and the Democrats on Friday with news that the president threatened a shutdown lasting months or even years, as the White House remains unwilling to accept a funding plan that does not include money for Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We told the president we needed the government open,” Schumer told reporters following the meeting. “He resisted. In fact, he said he’d keep the government closed for a very long period of time, months or even years.”

Pelosi, meanwhile, remained steadfast in her view that Democrats would not approve a single dollar for Trump’s controversial border security proposal.

“We’re not doing a wall. Does anybody have any doubt about that? We are not doing a wall. So that’s that,” she said.

The no. 2 House Democrat, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), will likely echo that stance during his appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, where a pretaped interview with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney will also be broadcast.

Other House Democrats including Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), who sits on a subcommittee focused on immigration and border security, will appear on shows including “Fox News Sunday.”

White House representatives will also make the Sunday rounds, with Mulvaney making two appearances on NBC and CNN’s “State of the Union” and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders joining Fox News.

Here’s the full lineup for the Sunday shows:

CNN’s “State of the Union”: Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.).

“Fox News Sunday”: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.).

NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Mulvaney.

ABC’s “This Week”: Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), potential 2020 Democratic primary contender Julian Castro.

CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Reps. Colin Allred (D-Texas), Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), Max Rose (D-N.Y.), and Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.).